Where have all the Brexiters gone?

[MsHooliesCardigan]

Just that really. 52% voted to leave. I know Mumsnet isn't completely representative of the electorate but you would expect at least a few people to be banging the Brexit drum. The ones that were quite vocal seem to have lost their voice. Perhaps they're just bored with the whole thing but their silence really is deafening.

Have you noticed the insults creeping in now true to form?

“Pathetic”
“Ill informed”
“Mansplaining”

There have been some excellent points raised up thread, yet these are ignored.

OP, if you are still around, this is precisely why so many no longer engage.

There have been some excellent points raised up thread, yet these are ignored

Could you highlight these 'excellent points' that have been ignored?

Another fact.
Bearbehind needs to get a new script writer. Repeating the same sentence every day since June 2017 does not equal interesting debate.

Could you highlight these 'excellent points' that have been ignored?

"mansplaining" is an insult?

The quote was said directly to Gary Gibbon, political editor of Channel 4 News, in his book on the EU referendum.

You're a year out surfer

Besides, you've done the same, your argument / comments have never moved on from 'we won, you lost' which is exactly why this is so frustrating.

museli said there were 'excellent points' which have been ignored on this thread yet pulled faces when asked what they were.

All I've seen is extreme, hysterical musings about the worst case scenario with the EU and a lot of, 'it'll be fine'

They aren't excellent points.

Excellent points would be how we deal with losing unrestricted access to he a Single Market and why it's worth it.

Surely it's impossible to "mansplain" on the a message forum?

'Brexiters' haven't gone anywhere, I suspect like me they are tired of the usual suspects jumping on every word they say. Go ahead I dare you not to reply. I won't be responding but I'm quite sure someone will be along soon to offer their opinion.

Told you so?

The ‘told you so’ is very much from Remainers wrt to the debacle unfolding before us, if you read the news at all.

That post was quite odd angelina.

Aside from the fact there seems little point in posting on a discussion forum if you are going to 'dare people not to reply', then saying you won't be responding anyway, you didn't say anything that required a reply anyway.

Still here. I don't regret my vote, but I no longer engage in discussions here about it. There is no point.

Also still here also not engaging because I still haven't seen a remainer on these threads who is genuinely prepared to listen to a different view.

That's quite convienient though isn't it baroness

No one on here has yet been able to explain how this 'short term pain' is going to be worth it, yet you are hinting you can whilst saying you won't.

Yes I agree Bear I can be a bit annoying too. I don’t really say anything other than ‘Brexit means Brexit’ because what else is there to say?
I’m not Red, I haven’t got all day everyday to post about Brexit on MN. & even if I had the time I wouldn’t do it because it’s pointless.
I know you all love arguing with leavers, I get that, talking amongst yourselves isn’t that interesting after a while. But honestly, leavers have just had enough. Unless any of you look like Tom Hardy, then I might be tempted to stick around. < shallow leave voter >

Personally, I’ve listened very carefully to hundreds of Leave views.

A very few are well informed, if naive. In the main though, the general lack of information behind them is profoundly shocking.

There are plenty of Remainers who are prepared to listen to a different view. Unfortunately, the Leavers presenting that view are unwilling/unable to accept detailed criticism, backed up with evidence, that that view is, in actual fact, flawed. Rather than then trying to find some evidence in support of their argument, they either start the old "we won, you lost" mantra, or flounce off complaining about how someone on the internet has been horrible to them.

Cardinal Sin

I take it you are a Remainer? Could I ask you a question about the EU?

Yes I agree Bear I can be a bit annoying too. I don’t really say anything other than ‘Brexit means Brexit’ because what else is there to say

Is that you Theresa?

surfer Just one question. When you voted Leave, is this how you imagined things would be panning out 16 months later?
ie that we would be no further on than the day after the Referendum?
Did you genuinely have any idea quite how complicated it would turn out to be?

very few are well informed, if naive ... general lack of information
ha ha! You just can't help yourselves, can you.

CardinalSin Can you please give me facts and evidence as to why the Tories / Labour / LibDems (your choice) are right and the rest are wrong. It would be especially helpful if you could give me some facts about life 10/20/30 years hence.

I never said I have the answer to how it will work, I don't. I do however have my own reasons for voting leave.

Can I ask you though how you think the EU will look in 20 years?

Did you genuinely have any idea quite how complicated it would turn out to be?

Yes. In fact the complicatedness of it all was a large part of my decision. The EU is purposefully opaque and oblique, it's like a spiders web. I wanted out while there was still a chance to get out.
There is an old saying in financial circles: if you don't understand it, don't buy it. The oh-so-clever financiers in 2008 should have remembered that.

That’s an evasion purits, the you were being asked about the “complicatedness” of the process not the EU itself.

That’s an evasion purits, the you were being asked about the “complicatedness” of the process not the EU itself.

Part and parcel of the same thing.