Have your frienships and family relationships suffered as a result of Brexit?

[Wormzy]

Just that, really. If friends and/ or family members have clearly voted differently to you, has it changed the way you see them or interact with them? Have friendships broken down?

I haven't been able to vote, but the outcome of the vote affects me disproportionately. Family members have voted Leave. There have been arguments, also between friends, some ended in loss of contact.

I wonder how the Brexit vote has affected others on here?

So he was a triple threat - not white, not Christian and to top it all off, an asylum seeker.

Facebook would crash if that got out

Show her this:

Yes I cried a lot and threatened to divorce DH if he was such a stupid twat again.

I am still angry and think far less of a certain friend.

I wish I could get over it but I can’t.

No, I don't know anyone who voted to leave, there has just been a lot of shared angst in North London. Our borough had the highest number of remainers.

I think you should do it Lovetosing when she harps in about "non-British" brown people, quote Mark 12 verse 31 at her.

Lovetosing or Leviticus 19:33-34

I barely speak to my father now. The crowing and floating was/is too much to bear. He is in his 80s and will not live to see the full impact of Brexit on his children and grandchildren.

He wants to keep the 'darkies' out of the UK. How in fuck leaving the EU is meant to have any impact on immigration from outside the EU beats me. Surely that is only going to increase.

Vile, racist bigot. I always knew it. It just focussed the beam.

Mrsmarigold - depends where in north London as my old borough had bigger leave vote than my new essex area.

I voted leave as did my entire family so no problem.
And before you ask I have would do so again.

You would do so again coppersulphate?

No. It was a secret ballot and I don’t feel the need to discuss politics with my friends who I think may have voted differently to me. Friends & family are more important than that, so I don’t want to go there.
My family tend to talk about other things.

I don’t know if I would vote the same way again or not. I suspect I wouldn’t, to be honest.

I'm an ardent remainer as are my parents and my friends. I know a few people who voted Leave but they aren't close friends. So there's been no wrecked relationships in my life. It's pretty bad when politics comes between a family, but I can see how it would do especially if both sides are passionate about what they believe.

Calledyoulastnightfromglasgow

Well personally I hate the notion that Brits are work shy lazy bastards who can’t do these jobs.

They were done before and will be done again. And the lowest paid will see a rise in their income. Rightly so. We already have some of the lowest food prices in Europe. This will help rural communities.

Flooding the market with cheap labour is really not a great idea in the long term and it doesn’t help social cohesion either. Boston anyone?

This.

I am a remainer but I really dislike the inference about many people who voted brexit. They are no more or less thick that anyone else.

Unfortunately the ones I know are definitely also the thickest people I know - as per my previous comment about the cousin who voted Brexit because he thinks there are too many Indians in the UK. He was only one example. I keep being told by Mumsnet that most leave voters are not thick, racist, uninformed etc. but my personal experience is exactly that. I would love to have a sensible conversation with a leave voter who can give me reasoned viewpoints, I just don't know any who do. Believe me it's not a matter of pride to be related to pig ignorant bigots but it is also an unfortunate fact and I'm a bit fed up with being told that such people aren't real.

My mum and sister voted leave and it's just so annoying as neither can come up with a coherent argument as to why! If I mention any potential issues which will affect them directly they are unable to accept it will be a problem and just say "Oh, it'll be alright in the end" or "things always change" it's infuritating! It's all about "sovereignity" and "making our own laws" and "protecting the fisherman" (no direct links to fisherman in the family but family members who may loose their jobs or need to move abroad as a consequence!) Poor loyalty in my eyes they should be looking after their own

It's strange the leave voters who are proud to leave and would vote the same way again don't know any leave voters who are racist.

Many remain voters are horrified by the racism they face when discussing the issue with some leave voters.

The majority of the leave voters I know (not many) voted for reasons related to race or immigration. Only one has managed to make a sensible argument the rest are undeniably racist. I think significantly less of them, I tolerate them because they are my partners family.

A) they may say they have vote one way or the other - but did they?

B) the Brexit issue shows how much so many people are so indoctrinated by the left wing political ideal they cannot think for themselves - ‘nativist - a nasty new term - the country is supposed to be run for it’s people not immigrants - islamophobia - a repressive anti women cult - but leftists and ‘feminists’ support it - so teenage girls in let’s say Rotherham should not be afraid Of it?

Perhaps people were better off not going to university and brainwashed.

The EU has done nothing to stop the minimum wage which has become so common across the UK in fact the EU is really a power base for some very nasty politicians - Junker who I believe ran the biggest tax haven in the EU - Luxemberg for the benefit of all those massive companies who pay low wages and no tax - not very left wing.

The leavers in my family would all say they don't know any leavers who are racist. That's because they do not see themselves as racist, even though they are, and therefore don't recognise the racism in others.

I think it's a bit much to go nc on brexit only. I'm a remainer but hope that if we ever had a competent government in, we might be OK ish. But I would lose respect for anyone who still believed the current Westminster liars though.

Gaspode - are you insinuating that Brexit is a left/right issue?

We already have some of the lowest food prices in Europe. This will help rural communities.

Brexiteers like JRM’s favourites Economists For Free Trade want the UK flooded with cheap food imports which will make UK farmers uncompetitive and put them out of business.

So that’s really great for rural economies, isn’t it?