I'm not afraid to admit I'm terrified

[StealthPolarBear]

I really am. It feels like we're hurtling towards no deal Brexit with a coward and idiot at the helm who couldnt organise a booze up in a brewery.
What are we heading for? Huge economic crash? War?

Last November the government's own economists predicted we would be worse off. But I'm sure you're right. Looking forward to the extra money in my pocket and for the NHS.

I’m worried too OP, I genuinely cannot believe what’s happening. However I’m not particularly worried about war - we’ve had economic crashes before and they didn’t result in war (unless I’m very much mistaken, if so please correct me!). Although I do think the rise in far right ideologies across Europe is really concerning, it’s like we never learn and are a destructive loop.
I keep clinging to a tiny thread of hope article 50 will still be revoked but tbh, if it was, there would be more trouble society wise I think.
Sorry I’m rambling. Can’t bear to see fucking Farage across all the news.

Get a grip!!!!

Grip got. Now engage your brain.

I think you have every right to be afraid of the impact of no deal. The likely price increases from the tariffs alone are going to be awful for loads of people. Frustrated that people talk about not wanting to have EU rules applied to us but they very neatly ignore that no deal means we would have WTO rules instead...except there is no say at all over them, no elections or negotiations will affect them. Can't point to any normal countries who just operate under WTO rules because they are meant to be a last resort. So angry not so much at voters but more at those parties lying to them or stoking fear and prejudice .... Farage won't be affected by no deal. Rees Mogg will be fine. But those in unstable jobs, just making ends meet, needing services with many EU workers are all going to face real difficulties.

Readily admit I am remain voter but thats because I work in a uni with plenty of students and colleagues from the EU and its a worry what it means for them. And already know of relatives of friends who are emigrating or waiting to hear if their companies are moving out. Its like a ball of stress in me all the time

Am also terrified of what lies ahead......

What happened to ukip? Didn't they disband with farage in some sort of shame? I can't remember the details. How has he managed to turn this around?

Oh and I find it shit scary when I realise people agree with and support Farage and think he’s right with his racist crap. It makes me think what I thought was the truth about this country was utter bollocks and that I don’t understand it at all even having lived it here my entire life.

I'm genuinely worried.

I really, really with my DSs weren't the ages they are, 18/20, but were either 10/12 or 22/24.

I so want to sell the house, stick the cash in an Australian bank, and breathe.

I'm far too old to withstand a 30 year downturn.

What I fail to understand is what we hope to gain in, assuming they ever turn up, Brexit MEPs 'disrupting' the EP. The very people we reckon we're going to do Great Deals with, post Brexit.....

Always assuming the EP, after tonight, doesn't end up looking like a Nuremberg rally....

Ah now my children. Are ten and twelve and I am worried. I assume the shit economy (as predicted by most economists and the government) will last well up to the point where they're trying to set up careers. I hope I'm wrong.

But yes yours will be dealing with the immediate effects and uncertainty. I'm sorry :(

Aberdeen here and I don't know anyone who voted for Brexit either, they've obvs different social circles to me 🤷🏼‍♀️ we're all just praying for independence

Dd2 & I walked passed some campaigning Brexiteers the other other day. She asked why/what did they want? I don’t think the old boys were expecting me to say “they’re campaigning for the rise of facism & the far right - their parents will be turning in their graves and their children will have to live with the shame” (that’s assuming we can turn the extremist tide). ANYONE WHO SAYS “GET A GRIP”...how the actual fuck do you think 1930s Germany became the horror of the Nazi party...oh yeh, by idiots saying “chill out, it’ll never happen”..with slightly more historically appropriate wording.
#WAKETHEFUCKUP.

I think people have used this vote as a second referendum hence the vote for Brexit and the Lib Dems.

Heading towards war 😂😂😂

My DH voted remain, but voted Brexit in this vote, as he wants to get it over with. He said if we reverse Brexit we’ll get an awful deal from the EU if we go back in, and that we might as well just get on with it and get rid of the uncertainty.

When Sunderland lost British Steel to ‘Brexit related issues’ I was reminded of the confusion of the ‘Rubber dingy rapids!’ jihadist in Four Lions just before he blew himself up. Both tragic; that area of the UK voted about 70% to leave. Now it seems as though the Government will let them take everything they wished for, and a whole community is shafted as a result.

I'm glad you find it so amusing. Enjoy every fun filled second.

He sort of retired from UKIP (stopped being leader) after EU Ref. Then when UKIP (increasingly) aligned itself with folk like Tommy Robinson, Farage seems to have realised that lots of little Englanders actually aren’t QUITE THAT RW/bigoted, so he had an opportunity to scoop up all the disillusioned lab/con voters and Kippers, and create a new ‘party’.
Apologies for all the quotes and brackets and ennui and existential despair 😩

stealth I should have made it clear, my family all have dual citizenship (Aus) but my DSs are 100% culturally British.

Can someone please elaborate on the war we are heading for? 😂

Op your entitled to be worried and have an opinion, people won't be bothered until the world and government blah blah gets really bad, worse than now , then people might see more clearly that it's actually more fucked than we think

EugenesAxe. Did Sunderland lose British Steel?

Eurgh to the results 😞
Alistair Campbell on BBC shortly. Emily was great.

We never learn and we are on a destructive loop.

Agree. Mass forced policitics doesn't work.

isthebigwoman You're either quite young or politically 'inexperienced', aren't you?

Off the top of my head, google 'women in Iran, 1970'. Just that. I expect they thought wearing a burka wasn't on the agenda.

Never be complacent about your civilisation. Be ever vigilant. The idea that this might turn into war makes you 😂😂😂 frightens me a bit.

It's so easy to sleepwalk into chaos.