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To be apppalled by the remain camp attitude

437 replies

Rebecca2014 · 24/06/2016 13:13

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.

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fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 25/06/2016 21:19

On reality

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 25/06/2016 21:20

Stunned by the arrogance of people who think they know better than ALL the economists

NowWhat1983 · 25/06/2016 21:21

You first.

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 25/06/2016 21:21

Yet got their degrees in the pub

Highlandfling80 · 25/06/2016 21:21

O and those people saying people they are voting leave to protect their jobs. Well who brought in legislation such as working hour directives? Yet we are now going to have to trust employment policy to a Prime Minister not elected by the people. Great democracy.

NowWhat1983 · 25/06/2016 21:22

Stunned by the arrogance of people who think they know better than ALL the economists

FUCKING HELL

The same economists who didnt see the 2008 credit crunch coming FFS.

Jesus Christ

Baconyum · 25/06/2016 21:23

Not sure if anyone else has said but op has admitted on another thread they did little to no research

NowWhat1983 · 25/06/2016 21:24

None of these so called expert economists saw 2008 coming. A global financial catastrophe.

Their opinion now, I attach very little weight to.

Highlandfling80 · 25/06/2016 21:26

Glad to hear it now

CurlieWhirlie · 25/06/2016 21:28

This is a democracy. The majority of those who voted, voted in favour of leaving the EU. Now can those who voted remain and are pissed off that things did not go your way, please accept this decision, put your dummies back in your mouths and your toys back in your cots. Thank you.

Rdoo · 25/06/2016 21:29

None of these so called expert economists saw 2008 coming. A global financial catastrophe.

Their opinion now, I attach very little weight to.
How many of the leave voters, who think they know better than the experts, seen it coming then?

NowWhat1983 · 25/06/2016 21:29

The 2007–08 global financial crisis is considered by many economists to have been the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s and yet no one saw it coming.

Yet you trust these same economists to know what they are talking about re the EU? Confused

Alright then.

Rdoo · 25/06/2016 21:31

Nowwhat, I trust them more than I trust the bar stool experts.

NowWhat1983 · 25/06/2016 21:31

This is a democracy. The majority of those who voted, voted in favour of leaving the EU. Now can those who voted remain and are pissed off that things did not go your way, please accept this decision, put your dummies back in your mouths and your toys back in your cots. Thank you.

Exactly. Also, those most likely to vote remain were 18-25 year olds and they also showed the poorest turnout. They simply didnt to bother to vote.

That is their own stupid fault. You dont get to re do any election or referendum just because people were too lazy to vote or they didnt like the result.

NowWhat1983 · 25/06/2016 21:32

RDoo you trust them though they didnt see the biggest crisis since the 1930s coming?

Ok then.....

MitzyLeFrouf · 25/06/2016 21:34

'can those who voted remain and are pissed off that things did not go your way, please accept this decision, put your dummies back in your mouths and your toys back in your cots. Thank you.'

Hmmm, let's see............

No.

I'm afraid this is going to run and run!

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 25/06/2016 21:35

It's nothing to do with dummies or toys. It's so immature to think it's just that.

ManonLescaut · 25/06/2016 21:38

Erm many economists saw the crash coming, I saw it coming and I'm not even an economist.

The fact is that global economic structure is so now so sophisticated and complex that predicting the precise topography of the crash was difficult.

The economic consequences of Brexit are plain and simple, such that anyone on the street should know and understand, and yet they apparently do not.

Between the financial crisis and Brexit, I am now convinced that economics should be compulsory at GCSE.

CurlieWhirlie · 25/06/2016 21:41

*can those who voted remain and are pissed off that things did not go your way, please accept this decision, put your dummies back in your mouths and your toys back in your cots. Thank you.'

Hmmm, let's see............

No

I'm afraid this is going to run and run!*

OK so, what happens if the Government decide on a second referendum and the UK votes to leave for a second time. What will you do, campaign for a third referendum?

ethelb · 25/06/2016 21:44

racist, thick, uneducated, stupid, poor, peasants, benefit scroungers

Yep, that sums it up. On Thursday I was a lefty activist very involved with a number of local groups against austerity, now I am a London indie blessing the day I never took that job up north to live with the anti-intellectual racist twats.

I want to leave this country and let the poor and the old 'turkeys who voted for Christmas' to rot in their own filth. You made your bed, you lie in it etc. Pay taxes towards their care, pensions and benefits after this behaviour? Fuck that shit.

Glad I am married to an EU national right now quite frankly.

ManonLescaut · 25/06/2016 21:47

A second referendum needs to have a threshold, as the first one should have had, which will make it definitive.

If 60+% of the electorate on a 75% turnout vote leave, then we have no choice but to accept the political and economic ruin of the UK.

Sometimes countries commit suicide on democratic votes and they can't be saved. The same thing happened to Germany in the 30s.

CurlieWhirlie · 25/06/2016 21:54

A second referendum needs to have a threshold, as the first one should have had, which will make it definitive. If 60+% of the electorate on a 75% turnout vote leave, then we have no choice but to accept the political and economic ruin of the UK. Sometimes countries commit suicide on democratic votes and they can't be saved. The same thing happened to Germany in the 30s.

OK if this was so important to you, why did you not start a petition BEFORE the referendum to ask for support for this? David Cameron made it very very clear that if the UK voted to leave the EU, that was it, there was no going back. If you wanted a threshold then why did you not ask for it???

NowWhat1983 · 25/06/2016 21:55

If the first referendum had had a threshold, no one would have won.

So what we just keep holding referendums indefinitely until there is a decisive majority based on your terms?

NowWhat1983 · 25/06/2016 21:56

OK if this was so important to you, why did you not start a petition BEFORE the referendum to ask for support for this? David Cameron made it very very clear that if the UK voted to leave the EU, that was it, there was no going back. If you wanted a threshold then why did you not ask for it???

Quite. You all knew this was coming.

throwingpebbles · 25/06/2016 22:00

I don't think we realised quite how many turkeys were gullible enough to vote for Christmas Sad

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