When Will This Brexit Hell Hole That David Cameron Took Us Down End?

[KennDodd]

I fear it will be decades.

Pandora's box opened. Far cry from 2012 Olympics.

We will never get over the consequences of this.

We are very much in the postion of the unfortunate pig described by Ms Oakeshott.

(With any luck he'll develop vesicular disease in the part in question as some form of karma.)

DC apparently has no regrets so presumably think this has been good for the country.

Never, the country will never recover.

Sad to think that the family I have left in the UK have already experienced the best of life.

Before the referendum I don't think I'd even had a conversation about the EU with anybody, now half my family isn't speaking to the other half.

Even if the Brexit unicorns of trade/wealth/sovereignty/£350m for the NHS turn up on March 29, the divisions laid bare by this omnishambles aren't going to heal for a generation. If the Brexit unicorns don't turn up (and indeed why should they, when even Leavers are now adamant that they intentionally voted for a bunch of bad shit to happen), the consequences of this omnishambles aren't going to heal for God Knows.

Yep we really are in a Brexit black hole. God knows how we got here I wish we could forget it all and go back to being the sensible, reliable, stable country we once were not so long ago 🙏

Does anybody else have sudden moments of appreciating just how good life has been, even with the inevitable struggles...& now wishes we could just go back...so sad.

Take me back to the time when Bake Off was on BBC1 (or 4).

DC apparently has no regrets so presumably think this has been good for the country.

He has no regrets because he still thinks about it predominantly from the Conservative party's perspective. His attitude must be that there was an internal chasm, that could not continue, and in a fit of pique he thought the ref would heal it for once and for all.

So this unbridgeable rift in the party was supposed to be resolved. And.. guess what - the devastating chaos hasn't even repaired the party and shows no signs of doing so.

Even if the Tories did now have a cohesive, repaired, functional consensus would the price extracted on the country as a whole be worth it?

Whatever the final conclusion (No deal, revoke article 50, May's deal etc.) the political and social, as well as obviously economical repercussions of this mess will be felt for a very long time.

Brexit has damaged the country irrevocably for at least a generation.

The opportunity cost is huge. Just think what we could have been doing for the last two years other than negotiating Brexit.

Even if the withdrawal agreement passes, we move into the transition stage and start negotiating again for another two years. Just think what other pressing issues could have been addressed in four years of focusing on Brexit.

A civil servant told me every department had to make detailed plans for No Deal, for hard brexit, soft, revoke. What an utter waste of valuable time because we got ahead of ourselves and don't know what we want for nine weeks time!

Every time I remember that it is only 9 weeks away I feel utter shock and despair.

How could the powers that be have let this happen?!

Theresa May has ruled out an early election.

So we all know what that means.

I doubt I'll see it recover. I'm 42 and would hope to live a reasonably long time. Not even sure my kids will see the end of it at this point. We are on a dark road.

Even the Titanic kept its captain to the bitter end. Where's ours?

I guess our captain is Theresa May?

< 20 yrs, I reckon.

< 20 yrs, I reckon.

Nah. Only when it's finally lost from living memory. So, not until my children's generation have passed on. Unless you mean that you're expecting muticellular life on Earth to expunged due to climate change in less than 20 years?