To not be able to speak to my near neighbours who voted leave?

[TooMuchCoffeeMakesMeZoom]

My children's future has been put at stake. Our economy risks ruin. Our relatively -well-off neighbours in a place with nearly full employment and very low recent immigration (local care companies and NHS are desperate for staff) have voted leave. They are only around fifty.

I'm gobsmacked.

The irony is that the small business they are in is affected by the growth of China as an economic powerhouse. So why on earth do they feel that leaving the EU gives them more power? It gives them less.

I am so angry and feel so let down by my country. These people, and people like them ahem destroyed my hopes for a continued peace in Europe.

How on earth am I expected to talk to them on an equal footing, knowing what they have done through their own greed?

[TooMuchCoffeeMakesMeZoom]

My children are pissed off too, actually. When their friends are worried whether or not they are still welcome here it does affect them.

[ToadsJustFellFromTheSky]

[TooMuchCoffeeMakesMeZoom]

Do you really not understand that no-British kids are anxious right now?

[Brexit]

Why?

[MumOnTheRunCatchingUp]

Why are you making those kids 'anxious'?

[TriniRedVelvet]

People need to grow the fuck up. Put on your big girl/boy pants and deal with it. People who have chronic life limiting illnesses can find a way to keep on trucking through life then you can too. I'm fed up of the weepy, woe is me bullshit now. 🖕

[petshopboy]

Your neighbours had a right to vote however they wanted get over it
Sore loser

[AgentZigzag]

'My son's French friend feels scared.'

I'm not surprised if the adults are all bawling their eyes out because of imaginary future they've made up when we all know we'll have been nuked by the Ruskies/North Korea/Iran this time next year

[EveOnline2016]

I'm getting so fucking angry with some of the stay voter. You loss get over it.

I voted out. I have friends who live in the eu and they have said well done on the vote.

[WorraLiberty]

My son's French friend feels scared. It makes me angry.

I'm sure they'll cope.

Just as my DS's 16yr old friend had to cope when she was told she couldn't wear her hijab when they went on a school exchange trip.

I don't know where you live, but not wanting to speak to your neighbours and witnessing teachers in tears, sounds like it's drama llama land

[TheNaze73]

This is a joke post surely?

[ToadsJustFellFromTheSky]

Do you really not understand that no-British kids are anxious right now?

And where have they got that from I wonder?

[TooMuchCoffeeMakesMeZoom]

Why are non-British kids anxious?

Because they worry they may have to leave their home and their school and move to a country they've either never lived in or left before they were at school.

Their families moved legitimately under the freedom of movement for workers, when the adults got work in the UK.

After all the racist rhetoric in recent weeks the children are now anxious about their future.

[TooMuchCoffeeMakesMeZoom]

I am not making the children anxious. I'm angry BECAUSE they are anxious. Because they hear the news and read stuff on-line and hear anti-immigrant stuff in the playground.

[ToadsJustFellFromTheSky]

Because they worry they may have to leave their home and their school and move to a country they've either never lived in or left before they were at school.

And where are they getting this worry from?

It wouldn't be from the overreacting and overanxious adults around them could it..?

[MumOnTheRunCatchingUp]

So man up and reassure them! Stop wasting time pearl clutching on the Internet!

[ToadsJustFellFromTheSky]

Then you should be reassuring them.

Instead you're all crying on the school field on sports day...I'm sure that made them feel better...

[LaBelleOtero]

I'll argue all day online, but I won't let it affect my real life friendships. You just have to agree to disagree and not speak on that subject!

Literally ALL of the older generation of my family voted Leave - Dad, Mum, stepmum, aunts and uncles! I vehemently disagree but I don't want to fall out with any of them, and I know they didn't vote Leave to be destructive or to hurt younger people, and I also know that if I go up a financial shit creek in a few years they'll be there to help me out. They just don't know how it feels to not be so financially secure you can pretty much weather anything, including just picking out a new country if you need to!

[pambeesley]

But that isn't going to happen.

Not wanting completely open borders is nit racist. We can now choose immigrants from all over the world not just have to accept anyone from the EU who wishes to come.

[mrsglowglow]

Well I'm sure your cosy terraced street is just wonderful. Why on earth would anyone vote to change your wonderful world you live in?

[KC225]

Your neighbours exercised their right to vote, as did you. Instead of taking it out on them, maybe you should vent your anger at the 28% that didn't vote.

[almondpudding]

I could legitimately claim to be anxious about the EU preventing democratic governments from forming (as they did to Portugal) or removing rights of workers (as they did in Greece and plan to do to everyone under TTIP), but I'm not sobbing and telling small kids we could end up being exposed to toxic chemicals in the workplace in the very near future, because that would be irresponsible.

I also don't go around to my neighbours and suggest he is totally up for the TTIP toxic chemical exposure thing and wants to injure children just because he has a remain poster in the window. I assume he might have other reasons for his decision in a complex world.

[WorraLiberty]

I am not making the children anxious. I'm angry BECAUSE they are anxious. Because they hear the news and read stuff on-line and hear anti-immigrant stuff in the playground.

Oh come on now really?

I live in one of the most diverse boroughs in Britain, where well over half of the children in my local school are not British.

None of them are even remotely acting like you are, and nor are their parents thank goodness.

The phrase 'get a grip' doesn't even touch the sides here.

[TooMuchCoffeeMakesMeZoom]

I have tried to reassure them. I'm not responsible for their anxiety in any way. They've seen the national media coverage and the strong anti-foreigner message. They may be young but they are not stupid.

I did not cry as I tried to reassure them. I took it seriously. I was really pissed off that I was put in that position. It was very hard. My 'big girl pants' as you so patronisingly describe them were very 'pulled up'. I hope they can sleep tonight.

And really, this 'pearl-clutching' phrase I see so often on Mumsnet is ridiculous. It's after midnight, they are in bed. I can't sleep, partly because I was so upset at having to reassure such young children that they wouldn't have to leave their home. When, of course, I have no idea at all what will happen, but I'm hoping that the campaign promise of 'nobody will be thrown out' means more than the bollocks about the NHS that was dropped this morning.

[WorraLiberty]

Righto