I've never met a brex regret

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Those reputed regretters...they must hang out in the psyches of rabid Remainers, for I sure ain't met one!

I suspect 'Brexit the musical'' is probably being written right now somewhere

It's a musicals mash-up and it's already written:

50% The Producers: conmen write a script designed to fail and accidentally score a hit. Dilemma ensues.

50% The Wizard of Oz - there is nothing behind the curtain.

The [S]Wiz ? (Very obscure 1970s reference. Even Diana Ross forgot she was in it)

Ah but the grandparents all remember it, it was a fabulous musical of the times in which Brittannia ruled the waves and looked over an empire that spanned the globe, they will welcome a revival because that empire is still waiting desperately to resume those happy times. It will help revive those relationships (vague memories of suitably subservient black people in it) and make the theatre and the school great again. They can get truly get their theatre back hurrah!

My MP wrote back to me and admitted to having had lots of constituents contact him with 'buyers remorse' (the term he used) post the 24th.

50% The Producers: conmen write a script designed to fail and accidentally score a hit. Dilemma ensues.

50% The Wizard of Oz - there is nothing behind the curtain.

^^ I like this great.

However it could easily be attributed to the other remain side also.
Junker is the wizard of Oz of course. The producers script being the failed stagnant EU project.

I have not met single Bregeter either. Hard however to say " I am a happy leaver " when folks are in floods of tears banging fists on the floor shrieking " you have murdered my children".

Interesting Under and yet many other MPs have written to constituents saying its better to be out...

However I think its natural for a small tiny % of voters to have remorse and I am confident there would have been "buyer remorse" had we stupidly shackled ourselves to the failing EU project for evermore for Remain voters.

So why do we never hear "Oh no, Labour/Tories/ have won the general election. I really regret voting for them yesterday!"

I've mentioned it earlier in the thread a4, but its probably less prevalent when you're looking at 4 to 5 years max and not a massive no u turn event.

when folks are in floods of tears banging fists on the floor shrieking " you have murdered my children".
What is the point of this ridiculous hyperbole?

So why do we never hear "Oh no, Labour/Tories/ have won the general election. I really regret voting for them yesterday!"
Of good grief. Because a GE is not IRREVERSIBLE or so potentially damaging to our economy. A GE does not generally create uncertainty about the status of hundreds of thousands of EU nationals who have lived in and contributed to the UK for decades. A GE does not usually result in a lot of knuckle-dragging racists, seduced by a vile 'breaking point' poster, thinking they are entitled to act in an openly racist way.
In short Brexit is in no way comparable to an election.

Dont know twofingers, but I found it hilariously apt.

I have not met single Bregeter either. Hard however to say " I am a happy leaver " when folks are in floods of tears banging fists on the floor shrieking " you have murdered my children".

😂😂

Well actually I have heard of people regretting their GE vote, including myself, when you vote for the best local candidate, and their party then ends up in a government you did not want . However I think that the difference is that people are used to voting knowing it won't make a difference. The shock I have witnessed in Leave voters and politicians came from not realising that a protest vote was actually going to swing a decision that will affect this country for decades, and probably given the balance of evidence, not in a good way for the average voter....

I met a leave voter the other day who thought we'd already left the EU. She also said that if it didn't work out then we could just go back in. I didn't waste my breath pointing out that she was wrong on both points. She didn't seem to regret her vote, she seemed quite happy.

Whatever we voted, we should blame Cameron and the poiticians rather than Leave voters who made what they thought was the right decision. We have ALL been stuffed. The cabinet didnt bother to draft the referendum legislation properly because they thought theyd win. So its full of legal holes. They didnt make a trading plan or carry out preliminary talks ditto, and now have to do it in a tearing hurry rather than work out the best deal because after 2 years we will be kicked out of the door and then be in a worse bargaining position. Davis has just ruled out the Norway option or anything that doesnt cut immigration. However other options will be tricky in the EU and will take many years - some of the committees only meet every few years. And the UK, having left after 2 years,, would be low priority, so they will only bother if it suits them by that time. The EU considers it actively dangerous to itself to make it easy for us , they have to deter others so we will have to be treated deliberately harshly - all that stuff about them not wanting to lose us was only true if we stayed! Now the uk govt will need to put together something they can sell to the voters - not a good deal for UK because that isnt an option -just something voters can be persuaded to accept... so i think T. May has told the Brexiteers up to get on with it. If you do not believe me and can stand 90 mins of legal discussion listen to this You will see its not the voters fault but boy are we in a criminal mess. Id say lets stick together and not make it worse.

I watched 20 minutes of the Parliament channel the other day, and a sub committee was discussing Economic effects of leaving the EU. Time after time questions were answered with '"we don't know what the constitutional position would be". The current position with the EU has been 43 years in the making, so it can't be changed overnight.

The government were totally blindsided But the EU itself won't be unaffected by recent events (and other stuff that's been going on) and may be considering changes within its own make up. If TM govt spend the next while putting their money where their mouth is, and making real efforts to address inequality, at the same time as trying to find a solution that suits all, maybe something good will have come of all this. Lots of ifs. But worth a try.

The shock I have witnessed in Leave voters and politicians came from not realising that a protest vote was actually going to swing a decision

Having seen repeated comments about "oh no, we'll get the Tories if we leave the EU" I think there may have been quite a lot of "protest votes" to remain. There were also votes for people who thought a remain vote was for the "status quo" and they'd probably have been shocked to find it wasn't.

The protest vote was to stick two fingers up to Cameron and Osborne ("the establishment"). Strangely, these people probably voted Tory 13 months early.

Unfortunately for the protest voters the establishment are still very much in charge.

The protest vote was to stick two fingers up to Cameron and Osborne ("the establishment"). Strangely, these people probably voted Tory 13 months early.

I don't think many in the North East, Wales or Midlands voted Tory

The EU will be ok.

I still believe Brexit should never have been put to the public vote.

As a European business owner who sells to the UK (20% of my business) I have been asked by many of my UK business customers if I will drop my prices because the pound has fallen. The answer of course is no.

Of course!

I think a lot of people have a big shock coming when the low pound starts to be reflected in prices.

Quite honestly coming from a town that voted 70% to remain I would say that the remain vote was largely coming from people, educated, London, Scotland and Northern Ireland who actually understood the benefits of the EU. It has been such a convenient scapegoat and straw horse for the likes of Boris to take a witty tilt at, and there is a lot to take a tilt at, but it gave us a place on the world stage alongside people of like culture and values, and it provided a regional context for our economy, especially given that post Maggie it is a London centric service driven economy (and that was not the EU's fault). Many leave voters may have swallowed all the guff about our future place in the world and think they took a rational decision rather than the protest vote against austerity and that London centric nature of the economy but they were taking the word of the likes of Boris and Andrea Leadham? Even I listened to Andrea Leadham thinking she must understand economics after her purported career but ended up shouting at the radio as she ignorantly tried to use the examples of Asian economies, the ones that arise from regional alliances

Anyway good luck UK or more accurately Ununited Kingdom, in forging some sort of world economic and political presence on your own, especially with Boris at the helm. I say on your own because I no longer think of the U.K. as a country I owe any allegiance too. I have lived overseas so our glorious colonial past and the associated arrogance and sense of entitlement, which frankly is how the rest of the world sees us, has always been something I felt I had to live down, now that it has lived up to that I can disassociate myself and watch the tragedy unfold.

Lots of leave voters who didn't understand the issues will soon be in for a shock I fear :(
(I voted remain but live in a county that voted leave)
House prices are falling, housing market has stagnated (half the number of houses for sale than this time last year)
The pound is the second worst performing currency after the argentine peso
We are now the 6th largest the...this will drop further.
Daily mail and daily telegraphy readers are already complaining about the cost of their holiday euros
Food costs will increase
Fuel costs will increase
Jobs will be lost
And this will affect leave voters just as much as remain....in fact dare I say more so as most leave votes came from the poorer and more impoverished counties of the U.K.
The referendum should never have been tabled...its was Cameron trying to shit use mthe right wing of his party.
He played with fire and we are all now going to get burnt.
It's quite clear that the majority of voters had no clue what they were voting for and as for protest votes....Jesus.
That's went well, didnt it?

Sorry for typos!