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

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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?

Well, my husband didn't vote. I'm going to divorce him.

Pathetic, you need to grow up op.
This is democracy.

Keep Calm and Carry on Soooo much drama!

We had our sports day yesterday as well. At our school there are many children from other countries. Even a few teachers as well. No one was crying, hanging their heads, wringing their hands. Every one was getting along nicely. Parents, teachers and kids all had a great time.

I have friends and family who voted leave. Mostly on immigration and the feeling that 'they're all coming in' whilst clutching the DM. I don't fall out with them but am annoyed at their ignorance in many ways because of the impact on us all being dragged down. And my lovely friends from Poland worried for their future. I think if some people are less politically aware they mistakenly thought they were sticking fingers up at establishment not realising the alternative is far more establishment

For the hard of thinking. This is an anonymous Internet forum. You are allowed to post within reason what you really think. Obviously in real life if I were engaged in a debate on this with someone I knew I would be too polite to say what I really thought. But on here I am honest. It's not "mud slinging" it is my opinion.

""any changes will not impact those who have lived and worked here for years. "

Is that one of those "£350m for the NHS" promises, or an actual thing? It's certainly what plenty of people believed they were voting for.

I thought it was those who voted leave who were meant to be intolerant

These people, and people like them ahem destroyed my hopes for a continued peace in Europe. The EU doesn't keep the peace in Europe, NATO does. Funny thing, when dh went to work at NATO yesterday, in Brussels, with 28 other nationalities, there wasn't sturm und drang about the UK having voted to leave the EU from either Brits or other nationals, brecause theya re adults and professionals. Several of his colleagues who are from other EU member states would also like the choice we have had.

These people incidentally Kerala are educated to at least post grad level, many have Chartered Status, so are not thick, and can come to their own decisions. They also work fairly closely with EU colleagues and have seen it up close and personal.

Kerala you're absolutely ridiculous. You are the one showing how ignorant you are. It's not because you're too polite to say to people faces either, it's because you're a coward and a hypocrite.

YABVU this is the most ignorant post I have ever read. People who voted leave did so because they honestly believed it was in Great Britains best interest. There are many many more reasons for voting leave than immigration. Only time will tell if it was the wrong thing to do.
Personally my own thoughts are that in the short term it may be a difficult perhaps turbulent few years after which this country can flourish with tax payers money saving our NHS and more to spend on our own needs such as housing/schools etc.

This.

The simple fact is that over half the people who voted, voted out.

You can stop speaking to your neighbours if it makes you feel better, but where do you stop this? What if any good friends let slip they voted out? The nice lady in the paper shop? The lovely polite old gentleman four doors down? Your husband's boss? Your hairdresser? Your mother? Because that's going to be your reality from now on. Contrary to the opinions pedalled on MN Leave voters come in all ages, colours, classes, demographics and political persuasions. They won't all be wearing stickers so you can identify them and avoid them.

Let it go. Accept that this is democracy in action. Otherwise you are going to give yourself a nervous breakdown.

"Do you work? How the hell do you propose working alongside colleagues who voted out confused"

I work. And I found it difficult yesterday. One colleague in particular staggered me by saying that he had had voted Leave, giving a pathetic reason that he 'felt like a change'! He then said he was very surprised by the outcome and had thought that Remain would prevail.

I was gobsmacked! And I'm afraid I did get tearful when trying to explain the enormity of the far-reaching and enormous consequences of the Brexit decision. He fancied a change?!! Good God!

My God, should I leave my husband then because we voted differently? My married uncle and aunt also voted differently. It's not like only 48pc of the country has kids, pensions, and European friends to worry about whilst the other 52pc were closed minded isolationists living in caves. Don't get polarised. I've heard no questioning of the 28pc of people eligible to vote who didn't, including 1.5m Londoners. And please lets put to bed the tired question of racists. They come in different colours nationalities ages classes and political preferences and have always existed, like abusers, and will always need dealing with, not avoided and not scapegoated so the wider concerns continue to get sidelined.

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Ha ha this makes the remain seem uneducated!!! And bollockless

Fucking grow a pair

Words fail me.

Last year, on the Friday after the Tory general election victory, I had a hospital appointment. In the waiting room I was genuinely astonished to see staff members in uniform wiping their tears away and promising each other they'd all stand together when the evil Tory overlords arrived to sack them the following Monday.

Those overlords never happened, and neither will 99% of the scare stories being peddled today.

YABU. Its a democracy and you are going to have to get over it

YANBU at all to feel this way. I would try and be nice to them but I completely understand how you feel!

My mum voted out. I didn't realise I had to stop speaking to her! I might have spent more time trying to persuade her otherwise if I'd known!

Your neighbours had the right to cast their vote exactly as they wished.

From what you have said op your neighbours have had a lucky escape if you are no longer willing to say more than hello to them moving forward. You sound incredibly hard work and personally I'd be very relieved not to have to justify my actions to an idiot that cries in a playground.

Well I'm glued to the TV, where have all these fascinating experts suddenly come from? Loads of scaremongering boring crap before the vote, loads of interesting information now.

I'm a remainer, but watching it all unfold makes for interesting viewing.