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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.

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annandale · 20/06/2016 07:23

What best said.

OhTheRoses · 20/06/2016 07:27

I don't think we'll know on Friday. It's likely to be so close there'll be a recount.

Quietly wait two/three years for the EU to disintegrate around us sovwe are in the position I wanted, out, but sadly with a great deal more debt and I a bigger mess than necessary.

MangoMoon · 20/06/2016 07:34

The sky won't fall in either way. The hyperbole employed by both sides makes it sounds as it the end of the world is nigh, but I really don't think it is.

The sun will come up, the kids will still want breakfast, the world will keep turning. Life will go on.

These posts stuck out for me amongst all the crying & despair.

Exactly my thoughts too.

Oblomov16 · 20/06/2016 07:41

Agree with above post.
Life will go on.
We will all go to work, cook dinner.
It's all such a mess. How can either 'in' or ' out' be good for us? I don't think there is a real solution here.

CoolforKittyCats · 20/06/2016 07:49

It's all such a mess. How can either 'in' or ' out' be good for us? I don't think there is a real solution here.

I actually agree. Not sure we should have been put in this position tbh.

BestIsWest · 20/06/2016 07:55

I agree Cool.

Lighteningirll · 20/06/2016 07:57

Won't make any difference so will carry on as normal and be glad I live in a democratic country

Notbigandnotclever · 20/06/2016 08:01

I shall cry, because our US holiday will be so much more expensive, as the pound plummets through the floor.

This.

CarlGrimesMissingEye · 20/06/2016 08:04

Annandale I'm sorry your friend feels badly but for everyone I know personally a vote to leave has zero bearing on our support for people from other countries who work here.

whattodowiththepoo · 20/06/2016 08:06

Large drink+snacks+Watch the shit hit the fan on here and Twitter.

Mistigri · 20/06/2016 08:09

I'll be doing the same as I do every Friday - taking part in a work meeting (research/ economics group at a British manufacturer). No doubt the result of the vote will be debated in terms of its implications for our forecasts.

For us as a family, a remain vote would leave us worse off, because my husband is paid in dollars. If there is a leave vote DH will be at the bank converting the contents of his dollar account.

stumblymonkey · 20/06/2016 08:12

Swear and curse people who vote without looking at the actual facts.

Mope and shake my head a lot.

Get popcorn and watch the resulting fallout politically.

Keep a watching brief on the implications and how we're impacted to try and negate them as much as possible.

Hope it doesn't impact my job.

LaurieFairyCake · 20/06/2016 08:13

I will be very, very worried as I think we will be plunged into a period of uncertainty that will increase crime, affect the housing market, stop investment and high streets regenerating. And lower wages and raise unemployment.

I don't want to return to the early 90's where half the high street was shut up and yoofs hung about with nothing to do.

If you add in a Trump win, other elections (like France and Le Pen possibly?) lurching to the right across Europe I think life will be really, really shit.

The Conservative party and their insistence on retrogressive austerity have caused this along with 10 years of anti immigration rhetoric pandering to people's fears. Fears which were completely unfounded.

The Tory party will implode, properly implode. They will not be able to extricate us from Europe and each 'side' will accuse the other of prevaricating/moving too fast - it will be HELL.

I'm obviously no fan of the Tory party but even I don't want them to divide and create 2 new parties - a right and a centre!!!

Pressing the 'fuck it' button should not have been an option.

OvariesForgotHerPassword · 20/06/2016 08:15

I'll have two years to qualify as a paramedic and learn Norwegian Grin

Seriously. The sun will come up, I'll go to work, we'll probably all be discussing it and having to reassure a few customers (I work in finance), life will carry on. We'll all start to work out the real implications of the vote result either way later on, after all of the hyperbole and point scoring has died away.

EssentialHummus · 20/06/2016 08:16

DP (Russian) will be arranging to move back to the European country where he would be eligible for a passport relatively soon, and I'd be making plans to join him. Along with our tax contributions on 2 6-figure salaries, our involvement in local events and our community participation here in the UK.

I'm another foreigner feeling unloved / amazed at the bile spewed during this referendum.

BoulevardOfBrokenSleep · 20/06/2016 08:25

I'll be applying for the Irish passports the kids and I are entitled to, so we can remain EU citizens.

I guess slightly longer term, we'll need to start thinking about campaigning against the next round of cuts; as the economy declines, so will tax receipts obviously, and spending cuts will be needed.

Whether it's a Cameron/Osborne or a Johnson/IDS government, we can safely assume the bulk of the necessary cuts will fall on the poor/disabled, so start working on that I suppose?

Artandco · 20/06/2016 08:31

We have already gained a property abroad for vacations. We would seriously look at moving there full time.

I would not want to live in a country if over half have voted out mainly due to migrants. It's horrid to think how unwelcome as a nation we would be

toomuchtooold · 20/06/2016 08:31

I'll probably watch the news compulsively for most of the day. I'm very strongly pro remain but I have a (slightly morbid) fascination about what will actually happen. I'm a politics/statistics geek with a bit of a background in banking, so I'm interested to see if the financial passport is withdrawn for British banks with EU branches straight away on day 1, as I think the French finance minister said it might. I believe it only applies to banks with EU branches, not EU subsidiaries, so it's likely to be the smaller banks that'll get caught out if so. I don't know what would happen exactly - I don't suppose they'll be expected to offload their business in one day. I don't know!

I'll also be looking closely to see what the EU says about British currently resident in EU countries. We're living in Germany but don't have permanent residence yet, we're British/Swiss dual nationals though, so although it probably won't be on Friday, we will soon probably be down the town hall to reregister with our Swiss passports.

DH is talking about putting some money over into pounds as well, if the vote goes leave. I'd like to retire back home to Scotland, so we've talked about buying a flat there... I read in the paper yesterday they expect the pound to reach parity with the Euro on the day after Brexit. We sold our house in London and brought the proceeds over to Euros when the exchange rate was 1:1.37. Someone remind me again why I voted remain?

uniquehornsonly · 20/06/2016 08:35

I will start trawling international job sites for a means to get out of the UK sharpish. As will DH.

I'm not British. DH is not British. DC were born here but don't carry British passports. We all are citizens of another EU country and, while we have been here long enough to apply for British citizenship, we have no interest in doing so.

So I'll take my highly-educated, high-tax-rate-paying ass to another country in the EU. I have no desire to bring up my DC in a country where the views of the Leave campaign are dominant.

uniquehornsonly · 20/06/2016 08:36

I will start trawling international job sites for a means to get out of the UK sharpish. As will DH.

I'm not British. DH is not British. DC were born here but don't carry British passports. We all are citizens of another EU country and, while we have been here long enough to apply for British citizenship, we have no interest in doing so.

So I'll take my highly-educated, high-tax-rate-paying ass to another country in the EU. I have no desire to bring up my DC in a country where the views of the Leave campaign are dominant.

KleineDracheKokosnuss · 20/06/2016 08:38

Watch the actions of the financial services institutions for 6 months. If they look like they will leave/downsize in the UK, look into moving to Frankfurt.

JasperDamerel · 20/06/2016 08:40

Sending my CV to the Irish passport office, who will clearly need to take on new staff to deal with the run of applications Smile

But actually, I'll be another one applying for an EU passport, and looking at ways to budget over the next few years.

Margrethe · 20/06/2016 08:44

Kleine, I think Paris would get a lot of the banking that wouldn't stay, not just Frankfurt. Possibly more than Frankfurt from the tittle tattle I have heard.

KleineDracheKokosnuss · 20/06/2016 08:48

I suspect you're right margrethe, but my French is terrible Grin.

icecoldlemons · 20/06/2016 08:50

Go home to my country