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Anyone putting any plans in place in case we leave?

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ThroughThickAndThin01 · 09/04/2016 10:36

I've just checked the EU referendum current polls and it's looking very close at the moment.

I wondered if anyone is putting plans on hold, or will change any plans they have if we leave?

Personally, I am wracking my brains to think of anything which will directly affect me. Although I wonder if there will economical turmoil and whether to plan for an interest rate rise (our very high mortgage). Which will in turn affect Dhs business.

If we remain, I'd imagine it's just business as usual.

Anyone have any thoughts?

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butteredmuffin · 20/04/2016 15:48

I wouldn't be surprised if Northern Ireland goes the same way.

BabyGanoush · 20/04/2016 15:51

Brits won't vote out.

They are conservative at heart (and wary of change) and would rather choose the devil they know.

A large majority will vote "remain"

butteredmuffin · 20/04/2016 15:57

Fingers crossed!

lavenderdoilly · 20/04/2016 15:59

NI will not leave the UK. Too much history. Nightmare scenario for me is Brexit followed by Scotland leaving the UK followed by justifiable resentment in Wales.

EssentialHummus · 20/04/2016 16:00

baby - I hope so. What concerns me is that there is less appetite among the Remain lot to actually go out and vote, as compared to Brexiters who are keen to see change. I'm worried that the future of this country will be decided by a bunch of xenophobic but politically active twunts.

lavenderdoilly · 20/04/2016 16:03

If it starts to look tight, Remainers will get out and vote.

OddBoots · 20/04/2016 16:10

Hasn't it already started to look tight? Certainly the polls I have seen have been pretty much 50/50

Shockingundercrackers · 20/04/2016 16:18

DH and the kids are Irish citizens... If I can get an Irish passport through them I will. I'm a UK citizen but I suspect the UK will be totally fucked if we leave the EU.

The town I live in is heavily dependent on foreign students, foreign employers and foreign health care workers. If they all leave there will be no work. So we'd have to up sticks too. I guess we'd go to Europe, hence the Irish passports!

SpringingIntoAction · 20/04/2016 19:57

Yes. I am laying in a case of champagne and some fireworks with which to celebrate the Brexit result.

And we will party Grin

YesThisIsMe · 20/04/2016 20:09

DH's job involves a lot of work with European institutions which would be very problematic to do from London in the event of Brexit. My employers aren't European and we don't do a lot of business with them, so as it happens I'd be OK for now, but there would be effects within my sector generally.

butteredmuffin · 20/04/2016 20:28

Oh, don't start, springing. You demonstrated comprehensively on the other threads that you nothing about the EU or how it works and are not interested in informing yourself. Your delight in at the prospect of something which has serious personal consequences for people like us (not to mention the likely negative economic consequences for everyone else, whether they realise it or not yet) is not welcome on this thread.

Shockingundercrackers · 20/04/2016 20:33

Is that FRENCH champagne Springing?

Chuckle.

Itinerary · 20/04/2016 21:26

Sounds fantastic Springing Smile

FlyingScotsman · 20/04/2016 21:43

I'm trying to plan what the heck I will do if we go out.

As a European citizens, I'm worried that I will simply be kicked out as I don't earn the famous £36k needed to stay in this country.
I have no doubt that the current government would apply the current rule to EU citizens, regardless of how long they have lived in the is country, married and with dcs (born in the UK).

Of course, I could do the citizenship test. That's easy. But I don't particularly want to be British and I will want that even less if said country is changing the rules and now wants to kick me out.
I suppose I can become a 'forced' British citizen instead.

Or we can all move away somewhere else and avoid all the mayhem that going out from the EU will create.

I am also worried about the consequences for th Brits wh are living in the EU. If the UK is clamping down severely on 'immigration' and is sending EU citizens away 'back to their home coountry', whatever that migt mean, then I would expect Europe to do the same. How is the UK going to cope with this influx of Brits having to move 'back home'?

FlyingScotsman · 20/04/2016 21:45

I agree with lavender. If the UK is leaving the EU, SCotland will take their independence to be able to move back within the EU.
NI is also a big issue.

Then you need to wonder what will left of the U.K...

dementedma · 20/04/2016 21:49

I will be applying for an Irish passport. My parents are both Irish.

PigletJohn · 20/04/2016 21:55

I suppose I might apply for a Scottish one. Don't know what would happen with the higher Scots taxes though.

hedgehogsdontbite · 20/04/2016 21:57

As a brit living abroad I'm terrified of what will happen to me. I can't work because of my disability. I get support here via EU legislation as an EU citizen. What happens if I cease to be an EU citizen? I can't return to the UK because I have nowhere to go and no way of supporting myself. How can there even be a fair vote when information about what will happen on the ground is non-existent?

PigletJohn · 20/04/2016 22:13

The Brexiters can't tell you what they want to happen, because (1) they haven't really thought about it (2) they are so disparate that they wouldn't agree, and (3) if they ever did agree and announce a manifesto, people would be able to check it for truth and achievability.

Has anyone ever seen a Brexit manifesto?

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ThroughThickAndThin01 · 20/04/2016 22:15

What's the Bremain manifesto then?

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ThroughThickAndThin01 · 20/04/2016 22:15

Stay as we are? Splendid.

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GingerAndTheBiscuits · 20/04/2016 22:19

Interesting the number who are applying for Irish passports. I am in the opposite boat and have been weighing up whether I should apply for British citizenship (I'm an Irish passport holder but DH and kids hold British passports but all 3 would qualify for Irish ones). I hadn't even contemplated the benefits of going the other way and us all holding dual passports... Ouch, my brain.

Pocketrocket31 · 20/04/2016 22:28

xenophobic, politically active twunt here Grin I'm voting out! So are the majority of ppl I've spoken to about it

butteredmuffin · 20/04/2016 22:30

And you have every right to do that, but coming into a thread where people are expressing legitimate worries and anxiety about how their lives could be personally affected (and turned upside down in many cases) and being smugly cheerful about it only serves to demonstrate just how much of a twunt you are. Please take your crowing elsewhere.

lalalonglegs · 20/04/2016 22:34

I qualify for an Italian passport and will be on the Italian consulate's doorstep on 24 June if need be. I think it's way too close to call at the moment - hopefully we'll have a clearer idea at the end of May of the outcome. Some rabbits should have been pulled out of hats by then.