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Brexit

If the nation doesn't vote with your choice on Thursday, what will you do on Friday?

286 replies

YourPerception · 19/06/2016 21:31

I will accept it.

OP posts:
user1465811850 · 20/06/2016 18:41

Pls uk leave europe & the rest will follow. The eu was made for fair trading . Not for other countries 2 decide what happens here!!! Im foreign married 2 a brit been hrre for 25yrs. Not worried . Better out than in!!!!!!

IamSlavetotheEU · 20/06/2016 18:41

Oh and how about all those people who work FOR the NHS who come from outside UK?

^ I must say doctors nurses consultants all seem to be from India/Pakistan, Thailand? Philippines etc. I have never ever had a polish or Romanian doctor, consultant or nursese treat me, and thank goodness I am sure their own countries need them,

IamSlavetotheEU · 20/06/2016 18:46

user I doubt they would leave as they share the euro

bobthebuddha · 20/06/2016 18:52

Try desperately to concentrate on the job interview I've got. Spectacularly bad-timing! And the referendum's on my birthday too, damn it.

Slingcrump · 20/06/2016 18:53

In answer to the op, I will

(1) cry

(2) seek dual nationality

pluck · 20/06/2016 19:01

If it's Leave, I'll compose a rocket for the Remain campaign, which didn't really try to win, did it? It assumed a remain vote, which was fucking arrogant, especially after Scotland.

TBH, I think they should all be slung out. No matter what result we get, the politicians who got us here have been negligent and arrogant. Even Churchill was voted out after WWII, because he was just not considered a leader for peacetime.

Just as the representatives of "Leave" will have to do the hard work (oh, dear) of negotiation and rebuilding all the institutions we will need, when we have but a small portion (shades of Jane Austen), the Remain lot will have to address the reasons so many people feel disadvantaged within the EU, particularly:

  • inadequate education, particularly of the technical sort, and modern languages, which will ensure UK citizens are not at a disadvantage in the common market
  • indebtedness. I'm bloody serious about this one. How can our citizens compete if shackled by debt from early adulthood? Paradoxically, how can our citizens NOT afford to take low-wage, precarious jobs to survive and pay off the bills? Yet credit is the obnnly solution offered to everything in the UK, right down to frighteningly basic things like education and housing. Other EU nations (leaving Greece aside) aren;t so indebted. It;s a cultural thing, and can only get worse outside the EU, when people have nowhere to go.

Personally, DH, the DC and I will probably be fine if there's a Brexit, but that doesn't mean I don't worry for people who are less fortunate in education and financial stability and pre-existing international links. Sad

RedToothBrush · 20/06/2016 19:05

There is plenty of successful people ready to step in their place, are university's are packed with talented ready to embark on good careers.

With respect that's no substitute for experience.

One of the problems that North Middlesex A & E has faced and been criticised for has been the balance of the expertise of staff. Too many junior staff not enough senior ones.

Imagine this not just in the NHS, but in other work sectors.

It would be a brain drain of our best talent as they would be the people most able to move and they are the people statistically most likely to be strong Remainers.

Of course you could import people into those roles, but it would take time for them to adjust too.

Its something that would be difficult to deal with if people in this group moved in large numbers at the same time.

BishopBrennansArse · 20/06/2016 19:23

No I don't think they'll all bugger off on Friday.
No I don't think they're all from the EU.

It's in response to the 'we have enough talent in this country' - we don't.
There are approximately 3 million jobs dependent on the EU in this country, though. Are there enough vacancies in other sectors to absorb that?

justbogoff · 20/06/2016 19:27

Meeting tomorrow to decide.
Probably send out notification of potential redundancies to all staff and a currency surcharge notification to customers. (Which is why we are having to consider redundancies).

PlatoTheGreat · 20/06/2016 19:30

Apply for a British passport.
Push DH to work a bit more on his French so he can his French passport wo a blip (our agreement, we get each other citizenship).
Then go and look for another country to live in...

PlatoTheGreat · 20/06/2016 19:36

Orange I don't think it's an issue of 'people form EU countries will leave the UK if the vote is Leave' but more of an issue that 'people from EU countries will be kicked out if Leave wins'.
Somehow, I don't think they will have a choice, which means that yes the NHS will find itself with very few nurses and doctors...
Or at least that's the message that the Leave campaigners are giving.

PlatoTheGreat · 20/06/2016 19:37

Btw, if the vote doesn't go your way, regardless of which way it will go, there is little to do apart from accept it....

BishopBrennansArse · 20/06/2016 19:45

Here we go - BBC now - 1 in 11 hospital doctors are from the EU as are 1 in 17 nurses and care workers in the nhs

OhTheRoses · 20/06/2016 19:53

Explains why I couldn't understand a word the cove I dealt with in a&e last week was saying.

BungoWomble · 20/06/2016 19:54

Start praying to every god I don't believe in that exiters were right after all, then get the kids ready for school.

OrangesandLemonsNow · 20/06/2016 19:59

people from EU countries will be kicked out if Leave wins

Which no one has said they will be.

YeOldeTrout · 20/06/2016 20:03

Get some sleep. I'm counting votes until 3am.

PlatoTheGreat · 20/06/2016 20:09

Really Orange? Are the Leave campaigners saying that all the EU citizens living here will be able to remain in the UK forever after?

That will be, I imagine under the latest rule that it is OK for EU national to not receive any of the benefits in the UK (such as CB, working tax credit etc...) as to not be a burden on the UK.
Note: this is already the case for the some benefits that E nationals can not claim for. A judgement has even made by the European court f justice saying that actually, yes that's OK, the U.K. Can treat EU citizen differently, even when they live, work, pay taxes in the UK.
Open door to a two tiers system.

kirinm · 20/06/2016 20:17

Didn't leave say there would be an amnesty on all illegal immigrants here now? I didn't read it so not sure if that meant they can stay?

Those who have voted on the basis of immigration are, I think, going to be sorely disappointed when they realise the only leader of the leave campaign that is truly anti-immigration is Farage and he's not going to be given too much say in anything given he's not been ejected (7 times).

PlatoTheGreat · 20/06/2016 20:21

Which illegal immigrants? All EU immigrants are legal by default no?

fryingtoday · 20/06/2016 20:33

Sit back and watch as we give yet more power to bureaucrats no one can name in Brussels

OrangesandLemonsNow · 20/06/2016 20:33

Are the Leave campaigners saying that all the EU citizens living here will be able to remain in the UK forever after?

Are remain saying that all EU citizens can live here for ever after?

No one can see into the future unless you have a crystal ball Wink

IamSlavetotheEU · 20/06/2016 20:35

It would be a brain drain of our best talent as they would be the people most able to move and they are the people statistically most likely to be strong Remainers

What a load of old rot. For goodness sake.

KleineDracheKokosnuss · 20/06/2016 21:16

yeoldtrout how does one get into actually doing the counting?

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