How scared are you of brexit?

[onegrapeshortofabunch]

Because I’m trying to work out if I’m a normal amount of scared or if I’m losing it.

I’m terrified of the recession that is looming after brexit, increased food prices, reduced public spending, which will lead to more homelessness and misery and perhaps even more violence on the streets. I’m terrified of the NHS being privatised, of not having access to cheap fruit and vegetables, of not being able to travel to europe.

Perhaps most of all I’m scared of a return to the troubles in Northern Ireland. I can’t velieve people would rather have a border than a backstop.

I’m scared of the way Eu migrants are being treated and how normal it has become for the Eu to be hated and mocked and blamed for everything. I’m scared of what this is doing to my friends, my colleagues, my community. I feel complicit and I don’t know how to protest or complain.

I’m a Londoner, and I’m scared of the ‘metropolitan elite’ conspiracy theories that both the left and the right seen to hold about people like me (I guess I’m what could be called ‘a centrist’). It makes me scared to talk about any of this.

I’m terrified for the future of our country, for my son’s future, for my elderly parents’ future, for our jobs. We are small, community minded people with small incomes. I spend a lot of my time volunteering in the local community. I feel like I should have been getting rich and hoarding money instead because it’s all going to be dog eat dog very soon.

I am losing sleep. I can’t concentrate at work. I find myself bursting into tears and getting angry for no reason other than a total; overwhelming fear of the future. I feel like my future has been taken away. Am i going mad? Or is it just the uncertainty? Or am I really part of an elite that can’t handle change?

For what it’s worth, I think the Eu needs to reform and the uk needs a big political shake up. But I think brexit is going to make all our problems worse, not better.

Does anyone else feel this way?

onegrape

I don’t have the prescription meds problem, but what I’ve gleaned is that you can try:

1. Paying for a private prescription (find a private doctor).
2. Request slightly earlier each renewal, for a gradual build up.
3. Find someone abroad whose country does your meds over the counter and go visit (bringing back a stash).
4. Ask for an extra week as you’re off on holiday and need it to cover the time period. Then continue with normal refills.

If you lose any you have, I understand that new prescriptions are also issued if you leave your meds on holiday and can’t recover them.

None is ideal. Neither is having the current incompetent government in charge.

A family member does have this issue - but I shall resolve it if needed by flying them out of the country to somewhere with supplies.

I think you are all over reacting , you can't sleep? You've more problems than Brexit if you are panicking like this

tennisracquet thank you - I will read that it looks very good.

I would love to believe the city am story but I don’t think you can extrapolate from Asian investment in that way. Part of those investments will have been committed before the referendum, and part of them will also be bets on the pound tumbling in value. I wouldn’t call the devaluing of the pound after the meaningful vote insignificant, either.

I feel the exact same.
I am angry that extreme voices have made this happen (Mr Corbyn, I include you). I am angry that no real party speaks for me. I am angry that Dyson, Rees Mogg, Boris Johnson etc are fleeing the country they are distroying.
The only consolation is that I have an EU passport so can exit if things get very bad. But what about my children who are 100% British? I am furious and worried in equal measure.

I think the citizens of this country are under- reacting.
Another recession will be terrible for us as a country and all the other negative impacts of Brexit.
Really upset by the whole thing. Angry that people voted leave so casually in a lot of cases, without giving it careful thought.

They’re planning for martial law to quell civil disobedience in the event of No Deal.

That sounds pretty fucking worrying to me.

I was talking to a Leaver who wants no deal who just soothingly said it would all be fine and work itself out in a couple of days. I did ask who would be working it out because the lot in charge didn’t seem to be at all competent but got no answer.

I really hope that time proves you right and we are over-reacting, sonlypuppyfat

I think recession is being optmistic. I expect a full-blown depression.

@Calvinsmam yes I did watch it, and yes i do think Brexit is somewhat familiar. Except it'll be the poor and JAMs fucked over not the elite as it was at Fyre.

sonlypupoyfat 10/10 for dedication to your cause 🙄

And yes OP I was worried about Brexit and the change in the UK so I returned home with my family. I'm now as far away from the UK as is possible but hope things don't turn out how I imagine it will.

SalrycLuxx thank you. (Although how I will afford these things - I don’t know. But I guess I could start asking for a bit extra now and see how far I get before they run out)

Oh god I wish I could leave this country!

onegrapeshortofabunch
I can honestly say that not one single person that I've spoken to (London and South East) appears to have even the slightest level of anxiety that you have; my friends and family include doctors, pharmacists, bankers, businessmen and trades people. I'm looking to book flights to Europe in April (EasyJet, not BA mind you).

Since you live in London, this website might be of use - Local Food Britain - covers London and the South of England;
localfoodbritain.com/
Much better than rice and beans.

Has anyone watched the Fyre Festival documentary on Netflix?
All the way through I was thinking ‘this is exactly what’s happened with Brexit’

Calvinsmam I watched it last week and thought exactly the same thing an hour or so later. The whole, "We only want positive people", "It'll be great" thing, aargh.

I think that only people who have realised the full reality of the situation feel like this. I feel like you.

Everyone else seems to be bimbling along in 'Ah, it'll all be fine, I'm sure' denial land or holidaying deep in oblivious land. I want to scream at them.

Asda
It was really interesting to see how everyone could see it coming but no one changed the course of their actions.

Everyone knows it’s going to be a car crash but for some reason they aren’t going to slow down the brakes.

Both horrified and terrified.

My son's very lovely Austrian g/f has just been confirmed as having 'pre settled status' so is good to be in the UK for another five years.
I'm chuffed to bits that this is now sorted but seething with anger that she's had to worry about it.

We are all hoping to go over to Ireland in the summer for my husband and son to compete in a sailing event and for the 'girls' to go sight-seeing when not cheering them on.
The dear g/f was seriously worried that if she traveled on her Austrian passport she'd have difficulties re-entering the UK.

Bugger Brixit.

I feel the same as you.

They’re planning for martial law to quell civil disobedience in the event of No Deal
That sounds pretty fucking worrying to me

The Health Minister said, 'martial law is on the statute book' but 'not the focus' of the government's attention. Sounds a bit like Labour's soundbite, 'all options are on the table'.

clavinova that’s interesting and helpful that your friends aren’t as worried, thank you.

Well, Clavinova one would hope that martial law was not the focus, and that avoiding the need for martial law was the focus, but admitting that no deal is shit enough that martial law has even come up in the conversation is cause for concern.

I’m not sure that some people not being worried is cause for relief. Plenty of people are idiots.

I'm desperate to buy a house this year so I'm worried prices will go up

Not scared.

More worried about the country being so divided and how long it will take to heal the rift.

Plus real concern about after we leave or stay, and how the extremes of either side will react. Yes we are divided but the aggression we have all seen achieves nothing.

I watched the Benedict Cumberbatch film (Brexit The Uncivil War) a few weeks. As a Remainer who whilst concerned had resigned myself to just hoping for the best, turned immediately back to feeling so so angry, frustrated, sad and angry again. Probably more than I was the day afterthought vote result.

We're a little island with massive delusions of our own importance and it will be years before we recover. People really have their heads in the sand and many who voted don't realise they will be the worse hit. Then who will be to blame?

BTW there's a very informative video on YouTube called "WTO, WTF?". I'd recommend watching (it's about 16 minutes long I think) to actually understand what the fuck£#g supposed utopia people think No Deal is, could mean.

Off to count my tins of peaches

Not scared because I am a general prepper who has included prepping for Brexit into what I do anyway.