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Brexit

How will society respond if we crash out on the 29th March?

130 replies

SparklySneakers · 16/03/2019 12:53

The clock continues to tick its relentless way until March 29th.
If the votes next week don't secure a deal and the EU doesn't agree an extension of any length so we crash out, how will society respond? How do you see the future of the UK over the next year?

Personally I am worried but holding on to a small amount of hope.

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BeersTonight2000 · 19/03/2019 09:28

So what did T May allow investigation into remain, but not leave? What was the logic behind that taking into account T May voted remain?

Depends which polls you look at. If you look at the link

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum#2016

Remain was ahead in the last few days before the referendum.

Point is polls are never consistent.

The biggest lies and biggest frauds were by Leave

and yet people who were free to choose voted leave even after seeing the booklet that government sent to each household forecasting doom and gloom. Something must have convinced the leave voters that either the booklet was another Project Fear tool or even if true they thought there were other advantages of leave?

bellinisurge · 19/03/2019 09:29

It's our sovereign language @ColeHawlins , people should use it correctly Grin

bellinisurge · 19/03/2019 09:31

@BeersTonight2000 - this is now an old debate. Yawn. Freedom. Truth. Elites. Blah blah blah.
Will we get Brexit on March 29? If so, what will it look like? And what will happen if we don't?

1tisILeClerc · 19/03/2019 09:36

ColeHawlins
As I work with many 'non British' it is disappointing that most of them manage to use English correctly and that native English speakers don't.

1tisILeClerc · 19/03/2019 09:38

BeersTonight2000 is another 'leaver' who will wake up on 30th March and wonder what happened and have no plan for it. Strangely it will be someone else's problem to sort out.

Seniorschoolmum · 19/03/2019 09:43

If we crash out, there may be demonstrations in the immediate aftermath although I think a lot of people will just be stunned.
Then Monday morning will come and everyone will get on with working out the new rules & any issues as they arise. What else can we do?
The next general election will be interesting regardless of what happens. Half the population will feel betrayed no matter what happens. Perhaps that will be an upside, to give politics in the UK a good shakeup.

1tisILeClerc · 19/03/2019 09:54

{If we crash out, there may be demonstrations in the immediate aftermath although I think a lot of people will just be stunned.}

It will be interesting seeing how many workers will be handed a P45 during that week as many employers either go bust or need to radically readjust.

BeersTonight2000 · 19/03/2019 11:25

BeersTonight2000 is another 'leaver' who will wake up on 30th March and wonder what happened and have no plan for it

On no they won’t. My plan started long time ago.

bellinisurge · 19/03/2019 12:35

Please share your plan@BeersTonight2000

TalkinPaece · 19/03/2019 12:44

Beerstonight
On no they won’t. My plan started long time ago.
Shame you did not share it with the Government

bellinisurge · 19/03/2019 13:06

Ok @BeersTonight2000 , I'll show you mine. I'm a general prepper so food supply hiccups are covered. I have an Irish born parent as does dh, so we are still EU citizens. Dd is awaiting approval to become an Irish citizen. I spent some of the small amount my late Mum left me on paying down a bit of mortgage to get a buffer in. Both dh and I work in jobs that are needed for the economy so we hope we will be ok.
I don't tell all my leave voting neighbours that I voted Remain because Tommy Robinson supporters scare me.
I prep rather than Hope. I soo want to be wrong and that everything will be fiiiiiine. What is your plan?

BeersTonight2000 · 19/03/2019 13:38

Live in Eastern Europe

bellinisurge · 19/03/2019 13:52

That's your plan? Do you speak any EEuropean languages? Do you have a skill that people there don't have? Do you have a visa to work in the EU?

TalkinPaece · 19/03/2019 13:53

BeersTonight2000
LIve in Eastern Europe
As a non EU migrant, they are unlikely to let you in unless you have the skills they need Smile

bellinisurge · 19/03/2019 13:58

Unless perhaps @BeersTonight2000 was urging me to. Sorry to disappoint, but I used to for work. So I have already done that.

BeersTonight2000 · 19/03/2019 14:45

Have family in EE.

bellinisurge · 19/03/2019 14:49

So how did you vote, @BeersTonight2000 ?

SparklySneakers · 19/03/2019 16:28

@BeersTonight2000 has a plan?! Please share your plan.

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bellinisurge · 19/03/2019 16:34

@BeersTonight2000 is moving to E Europe where they apparently "have family ". Not sure how welcome they would be as a refugee, though.

BlackeyedGruesome · 19/03/2019 22:10

Eh? A leaver then.

wonders if it is too late to be adopted

BeersTonight2000 · 20/03/2019 00:21

Employer is German and I will be working on a Nuclear Power Plant. EE has many Nuclear Plants. Employer sorts out paperwork, but as UK is still in the EU it is easy.

Bexit likely to be delayed. If EU has their way it will be a long delay with significant costs to be paid by UK. All part of stalling Brexit and trying to sweep it under the table as though the 2016 referendum never happened.

The lack of certainty will drive more companies away from the UK and result in job losses. Possible that at the end of the delay period UK has suffered more than they would had they left EU on 29 March 2019?

bellinisurge · 20/03/2019 05:37

Good luck @BeersTonight2000 . I wonder if perhaps there are people locally who could do the job your German employer needs.

lonelyplanetmum · 20/03/2019 05:59

The lack of certainty will drive more companies away from the UK and result in job losses.

I've lost track of this thread a little but it does seem that the situation (which is now acknowledged to be a crisis) is building more dialogue between posters who would still vote differently in a PV.

Here there is consensus on both sides that businesses have left (and are still leaving the U.K.) because of this debacle. On another thread I got some limited consensus that some voters are confused about what no deal means.
It's only small things but this limited dialogue and consensus seems a shift to me.

MrsSchadenfreude · 20/03/2019 06:09

“Crashing Out With No Deal” doesn’t mean what the vast number of Brexiteers think it does - we won’t be jumping ship and sticking two fingers up to the EU if there is no deal. We will be paying our dues - the vast amount that we will owe the EU - for leaving, without getting any benefits.

BeersTonight2000 · 20/03/2019 06:30

I wonder if perhaps there are people locally who could do the job your German employer needs

EBRD funded projects are always in the UK language and it is often an EBRD requirement that administration of contracts are done by native UK people who have specific knowledge of EBRD procurement procedures. However, the majority of office staff will be local. Usually 75% or more depending on which country.

For those working on the sites the local content will be even higher with only a handful of foreign lead engineers. Specialist subcontractors may be all foreign depending on the work that is being done.

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