To be apppalled by the remain camp attitude

[Rebecca2014]

On my FB feed, social media, TV we are being berated for voting leave, we are being called racist, thick, uneducated, stupid, poor, peasants, benefit scroungers...the list goes on. There is even an petition now to have another referendum because obviously the leave camp know absolutely nothing.

Boris Johnson was whisked away by the police when he left his house this morning as protesters were ranting at him, banging on his car. How is this democracy? why does it only run one way? Yet you cheer at this act of aggression.

I would understand if the vote was closer but it was not close, leave won by well over a million votes. Why cant you accept the results and look for a way forward together, why have a "me vs them" attitude.

Hmmm. Do you keep up with CPD? Because I find it hard to believe you wouldn't have seen that term used...maybe you always think it's a typo... (I was a bit spock eyebrow the first time something I'd written got subbed to include that term but I adjusted. It's actually a pretty damn good descriptor for what happened - panic spread like the plague. In some ways it felt like living through a financial version of an episode of survivors. I certainly didn't coin the term - it would be above my pay grade even now and certainly back then - but I wish I had...) It's very common though not ubiquitous at FEE level too. Guess we don't have to worry about that any more... (One thing I won't mind is fewer trips to Brussels Midi and fewer invitations to EU cocktail/canapé events. If leave had focused on those they might have had a point. There are far far too many of them).

I do keep up my CPD thanks for asking

I don't work in European markets at all which may be why I've not heard the term. No need to be so defensive

on facebook - someone shared an EDL post. Very racist. I pointed out it was racist. I was called a 'miserable remain cunt out for a fight' That person was my Uncle.

Yes, I voted remain. Yes I looked at both sides and even sat through the Brexit movie I wont get that time back

There is vitriol towards anyone not White, British and voting leave. Remain voters have been called all sorts on my FB feed from hipster tossers to posh twats and being accused of wanting the 'British race watered down'. How more racist can you get? I don't even need to point out who else thought the same.

Sadly I am related to these people. though I am putting myself up for adoption if anyone wants a 31yo DD

I really don't understand why leave supporters seem so angry? Shouldn't this be the time to be happy that your side won?

Gawd twatbadging I know how you feel. Lots of my family voted leave too, it's a weird feeling to be so politically alienated from your family. My family (the ones I speak to anyway) are not racists luckily. Your uncle sounds a nightmare!

lunde I think its fear. They have voted for a dream not a plan.

lunde if you rtft lots of us aren't leave voters, there's been a lot of discussion about how mudslinging and name calling on both sides is not helping and is making things worse.

A lot of people are concerned about the uncertainty around what happens now we have decided to leave the EU. The Major players of the Leave and Remain side made lots of promises about what they would do should you vote their way. What needs to be remembered are that they are politicians (or wannabes) and a lot of people now no longer trust or necessarily believe any of them ( for example The. Lib Dems and University fees). Therefore a lot of people (both sides ) voted as they felt/saw it Rightly and Wrongly but also passionately (it was remember presented as a very White/Black issue). We therefore need to give ourselves time to come to terms with the decision (those of us who voted to remain) and to rebuild relationships with those who disagreed with us and hope for everybody's sake that they were right and we were wrong!

MrsChrisPratt he did a DNA test to prove he was British. my lot are also sexist and one in particular is a footy loving rape apologist (ched Evans was interesting issue). I actually told my OH I will take his name if we get married now. I don't want to be associated with that.

seems extreme but their views really are and its the only way I can distance myself.

twatbadging we have a lot in common. I'm a feminist who took my husband's name to disassociate from my family.

My 'D'M is incredibly racist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic, funniest thing ever when she started researching the family tree as a nice hobby - she discovered we were descended from Polish Jewish immigrants - fucking brilliant! That hobby didn't last long

I really don't understand why leave supporters seem so angry? Shouldn't this be the time to be happy that your side won?

Because they realise now it was a big mistake.

I agree, its disgusting, the people have voted, this is what they have voted, so be it

A margin of 4% does not represent 'the people'.

MrsChrisPratt ahhaha! LOVE that and what awesome ancestry you have too. Mine is gypsy, Irish, scot and Scandinavian. Looking to see if we have any skeletons ;)

I am very much a feminist and Green warrior (my DCs words ;) completely at odds with my wider family. I am not one of them.

MrsChrisPratt - Ha Ha You have cheered me up!

Thanks twatbadging and seabird it's one of DH's fondest memories of my family

What I find amusing about these threads is that, had the result gone the other way, they would still be happening but with the protagonists switched.

SoupDragon there is a difference between the status quo not changing and a change which turns millions of lives around. So no, they would not be happening exactly the same way.

and I'm certain I'd not be calling leave voters miserable cunts.

I'd still call a racist out on a racist post. That's just giving a damn not politics.

unfortunately some of my family members voted to leave forgetting their birth roots having been born outside of the UK. I for one will not be putting today into my history book as Independence Day as has been suggested by Nigel Farrage but tread in dog poo day.

www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/british-lose-right-to-claim-that-americans-are-dumber

I can't type what one of the leave voters said today as it would be instantly deleted, it involved boats. I don't think all leave voters are racists but I think racists are part of the leave vote. I think if you associate with that then you can't complain if people call it out.

It's amazing. 10 days or so ago post Jo Cox's murder people in the Remain camp were calling for a kinder political debate with toned down rhetoric and the vitriol removed.

Today those same people are calling those who disagreed with them racist cunts, xenophobic scum, trying to plot ways to remove the vote from those who disagree with them.

Suddenly those people who ten days ago couldn't chuck freedom of speech out fast enough are claiming it as their right. Anybody might think they just wanted to shut people up when their views are inconvenient to them but won't apply the same rules to themselves. Hmm...funny that.

People do call it out.

I was told by a remain voter before the vote that I should 'fuck off out of the country' if I was to vote leave.

Calling people racist for voting a particular way seems to have become the default first line as the first thing said as soon as it is discovered the way someone has voted.

That is wrong and that can be complained about.

I concur, Bill. I have been really taken aback at how awful some of the remain voters have been to the leave voters. My job is EU funded and will no doubt go, but come on!! Either this is a DEMOCRACY or it isn't. We don't get to pick and choose the results we like!

Since when did all the Leave voters get so sensitive?

What did you think, that people would just swap shirts and shake hands?

We're about to see a leadership election in the Tory party. And the Labour Party. Then a general election and possibly an Indyref2. I suggest you steel yourself for some serious conflict!!!

Surely you expected this ?