my dad voted leave and I'm really struggling.

[BrexitentialCrisis]

Today my dad told me to get a grip and to stop worrying because everything will be fine. I reminded him that:

1. We have a government in chaos with an opposition in chaos

1. Jean-Claude junker has indicated that Britain will be presented with very straightened terms once tariffs are negotiated

1. There are serious conversations happening about the break up of the U.K. With independence for Scotland and a unified Ireland.

I'm really struggling to be around him- his arrogance that this is just a blip and that we have made a great decision makes me feel sick. He berated me for signing that petition and called it silly.

He's my dad and I love him dearly but this fucking referendum has driven a huge wedge between us.

[MrsBlackthorn]

For a lot of people it's not possible to pretend it's all going to be ok. We have jobs and livelihoods on the line. Our savings are disappearing. Our children's futures have been irreversibly damaged. You might be able to forget that within a few days, but I can't.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

I think increasingly that the issue does not lie in that people are differing politically. It is that they have entirely different world views which cannot be reconciled.

[WalrusGumboot]

But jobs were never secure anyway, I certainly don't take my job for granted and never have. The point is that worrying about it is pointless (what will be will be) and we should be concentrating on just getting along not tearing strips off each other and blaming members of our own family for something the country decided as a whole in a democratic referendum!

[WalrusGumboot]

Plus think about it - your home town could be in e.g. Syria or Afghanistan. A little perspective may help. You can't possibly know that your children's futures have been irreversibly damaged, that's just your pessimistic opinion.

[IrianOfW]

Well that's why you don't discuss politics or religion with people you are close to. He had every right to vote as he chose and so did you. No need to thrash it over after the event.

I am in the same position with my mum (don't know about my dad because he was the one who taught me that you shouldn't discuss politics with the people you are close to so he wouldn't tell me unless I asked). She voted leave and will tell me all about it if I let her - so I don't. I just change the subject. If she goes on about it I will just tell her that we will have to agree to disagree.

[Mooingcow]

Our children's futures have been irreversibly damaged

How? Genuine question,

I don't know any children who are suddenly unable to do what they were planning last week,

Even the EU law option remains unchanged because, guess what, like his American and Chinese mates, my nephew could work anywhere in the EU that wants a lawyer with his skills.

[OutwardBound2016]

I have a close friend who is from another EU country, works for the NHS, married a British man, DC's, gets on well with her PIL. PIL voted out.....she is devastated, for her it feels like they have been tolerating her and the rest of her friends and family for a decade, I can understand why she is pissed off.

[iwantadragon]

The lack of general and emotional maturity has been astonishing.

You've hit the nail on the head.
There has been a lack of emotional maturity shown from a lot of Remainers.

[iwantadragon]

In fact I haven't seen so much public emotional immaturity and hysteria displayed since Princess Diana died.

People need to get a bloody grip and Grow Up.

[iwantadragon]

To quote you Dad.

[iwantadragon]

To quote your (OPs) dad.

[Mooingcow]

iwanta that's so funny, I had exactly that conversation today with a friend. She reminded me that the whole country just sat glumly in corners or got out and shouted at the Queen to address them and show some emotion.

It was a unique display of an emotionally incontinent population demanding that an adult figure appear and reassure them and, when thwarted, resorting to conspiracy theory, abuse and uncontrolled fury.

Maybe Elton will write a lovely song to the Candle in the Wind tune.

Deja vu.

[RainYourRottingMyDhaliaBulbs]

My dad did. He openly said he didn't care about the consequences, he wanted to have his say on people who look a bit foreign. He said he was worried staying in the EU will mean the country will soon be "full of them"

ah so you tar everyone with the same brush I see..its projection.

[iwantadragon]

to Elton writing a song.
How would it go?

''Goodbye Britain's Thorn........''

[RainYourRottingMyDhaliaBulbs]

I certainly could not vote to pass on the utter chaos and wild west we have lived through these past years to my DC.

[RainYourRottingMyDhaliaBulbs]

[Mooingcow]

"And it seems to me you cast your vote
Like selfish racist toss
There's no way that you researched it
You just voted for my loss
And I would liked to have told you
Your opinion was wrong
You're only allowed to vote like me
I'm very, very cross"

[iwantadragon]

Slow Clap for Mooingcow.

And it seems to me that you've lived your life
like a needy, nodding dog.
Staying the same
Scared of change,
The EU was your God.
And I can't say that I blame you,
You have never known another way.
But it's time to Stop
Your Whinging Strop.
It's here to Stay.

[lotbyname]

Cater: Immigrants haven't done something that I believe will ruin this country. Obvs. :)

[iwantadragon]

Mooingcow, I think we've did good there

[Mooingcow]

Etc

[loobyloo1234]

Mooingcow iwantadragon

Thanks for ending this post on a lighter note It took me a while to read all pages, and found myself getting more and more depressed. You have cheered me up Where is Elton when you need him? I will get sued if I said what I thought he was really up to right now...hashtag injunction

[EttaJ]

iwantadragon That's brilliant 😂 and i agree about since Princess Diana died. Some people I know and others I don't have amazed me with their drama and hysteria. I'm on a large group messenger and grown women have been crying. Saying it is like a death. Sick of the nonsense. I have not stopped talking to anyone or unfriended anyone on Fb (just unfollowed) but my god they're spouting some utter shite. They wind each other up. It's boring.