To still be really sad and angry about Brexit

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It really reduced the opportunities in my future and has achieved absolutely nothing of benefit for anyone else (besides disaster capitalists who made a mint off the financial manipulation effect). We haven't even avoided those stupid fecking tethers on the bottle lids!

When the extra immigration checks come in in October it's going to make every holiday a tiny bit upsetting.

And the new government won't even try to fix it.

Don't get me wrong I'm not one of those idealists singing ode to joy before breakfast but on a personal level it bloody sucks and seems likely it always will.

Yes, I remain sad and furious. I saw the picture again earlier of Farage celebrating the collapse of the pound and it makes me so bloody cross.

Yeah, me too. I had a canvasser at the weekend and it got me thinking what I might say if the Tories or Reform turn up. Brexit might well feature even though it was 10 years ago. I'm not over it and they're not forgiven!

Yea and that cunt Farage has decided to try and cause even more issues by standing to be the MP for Clacton.

He is a racist who has done enough damage to this country and Reform are nothing more than the National Front in suits.

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I remain sad and furious too. Absolute fuckers, reducing our opportunities, freedoms and financial security. And as an older person, I am even more furious that they've done this to our young people.

I’m no fan of of his, but actively wishing someone had been killed in a plane crash is a bit much OP.

I am observing that my life would be better if he hadn't been around to trigger the events that led to Brexit. He's loaded and has a German passport. I'm poorer than I could have been and with extremely restricted rights to engage with the EU. I don't feel bad about daydreaming alternative histories.

YANBU OP. I feel the same

Yep! My new European passport arrives at the end of the month. No point in renewing my British one

I agree OP. I am sad for my children, sad for the country. I will never “get over it”. I’ll be sad forever about the damage Brexit has done, the waste and stupidity of it.

I too am sad and angry. So much damage, for nothing. It has helped the rich and powerful get even more wealth and even more power.
I hate Farage so much. I don't wish him dead but I do hate him.

Same. And even Brexit voters now say it hasn’t achieved anything they hoped for. It makes me so sad- we’re all poorer, with fewer opportunities, and made to look ridiculous as a country and for nothing. And the politicians who promoted it have just moved onto the next thing.

Yanbu, I won't ever "get over it" either. I will never forgive those that campaigned for it or the twats that voted for it. A monumental act of national self harm.

And the general election is coming with absolutely nothing offered for those of us who are so upset. No one is talking about the opportunities Brexit lost us and who is to blame. No one is talking about how to move to rebuild relationships with the EU and salvage what might be possible. Why not?!?!

Sorry - your not wishing that he was in an air crash so brexit wouldn't have happened? Surely not.

He WAS in an air crash but was rescued. Sliding doors. His good fortune was misfortune for 66m Brits and a fair few Europeans.

People will die as an indirect result of the poverty and chaos caused by Brexit. Have done already. I think it's completely reasonable to prefer an alternate reality in which Farage died in an air crash. It's not the same as actually assassinating him (which I do not condone). He didn't do this by accident, or without knowing the consequences, he's a bad man.

Yes, still sad and angry.

Those who are still sad and angry need to campaign and lobby to rejoin. It's done, it's shit, focus on change for the future.

The positive I am taking away from Farage standing again is that he will split the Tory vote and help them further along the line of political obsolescence.

As for wishing the man dead, well... I agree that's harsh. But then part of me remembers there's a hair's breadth between him and Hitler. How many have wondered how different things may have been had Hitler died sooner? Fascism creeps in, it doesn't thump on the door and announce its own arrival.

You know you’ve got right on your side when you’re wishing people dead ….

As a pp has observed, it's really just preferring to put the harm in a different place.

I wonder if anyone besides the super extremists still supports Brexit. It is a real shame Labour won't help to fix things.

Yes still angry. And infuriated that Cameron got to just throw in the towel and live a lovely life after kicking it all off. And to answer a pp, whilst I wouldn't wish death on anyone, yes I'm disappointed Farage made it out of that plane wreck. As a non white British person I think he's made life for us really difficult and it didn't need to be like this. I despise him and Johnson.

I wish ill on him OP to be honest.

He’s disgusting racist - plenty of kids have died in the channel now there are no safe legal routes for people to claim asylum. I blame him.