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?

Who is axe?

If I didn't need to take daily medication to keep me alive I would probably be a bit more cavalier about this whole thing. As it stands nobody knows how a no deal Brexit will impact imports of medication / ingredients to make medication in this country. The EU don't owe us anything. People can go on about Teresa May, but the EU have said themselves that they will not be moving from their position.

What a shitty thread response!

I'm terrified, this country is heading for an implosion of its government and everywhere you turn there is vile hatred spilling from everyone over Brexit.

Can you read?

I'm wouldn't be stockpiling either if I was there (I've moved to Australia) but mainly because there is no point. I actually think no deal will be ok for a few weeks, it won't be immediately a crisis, the government can surely plan for the immediate drama and the EU won't want the UK citizens to starve.

It's the long term that worries me. Major industry leaving. Banks and Insurers leaving, NHS being killed by a thousand cuts and voracious overseas health companies. Brain drain as those who have the choice leave.

I'm not terrified, but I'm very sad. We left in 2015, just before the referendum (for unrelated reasons) and it's makes me sad that the UK just isn't the country I thought it was.

if 2008 didn't show everyone that, I don't know what will - and the only way we have to buffer ourselves is to be part of something larger.

In what way did our relationship with the EU assist in our recovery from the Great Recession?

If I didn't need to take daily medication to keep me alive I would probably be a bit more cavalier about this whole thing.

Might I ask who manufactures your medication?

I think the Brexit party has so much support because everyone is sick to the back teeth and just want it over

Gronky , I have not said that no deal will end in war. To be frank ANY deal that weakens our alliances with those most geographically close to us could(!) result in war of some description. My dh has had to move countries twice (first as a child, second as an adult) due to actual war created by political instability....he had always had a right to a British passport and I told him to stick with it “because we’re sensible”...feel like a right twat now🙈

gronky I am responding to a poster's 😂😂😂at the idea this might end in war.

I reminded them that young women in 1970s Tehran never imagined they'd be in Gurkhas, a year later.

Not hard to see the link between laughing at momentous change- then finding out the hard way that it will affect you.

Burkhas. Can't preview on my phone!

everywhere you turn there is vile hatred spilling from everyone over Brexit

Everywhere? Vile hatred? Everyone?

This feels like a bit of an exaggeration, tbh.

Honestly... just get a bloody grip!
People go on about democracy but then go of on a rant if you don't agree with them!
I actually voted remain but it didn't happen so it's time to just get on with it.

olivers I am sure of it! So many knee jerk, dog whistle responders voted for Leave with no idea what it meant; similarly, many 'want it over with', without, predictably, understanding that the day we leave (currently on No Deal), it doesn't 'end', it begins.

Utterly terrified here. DH and I would seriously consider emigrating if anywhere would have us. I could (and have done) weep for my children's future.

bigwoman get on with what? A direction that the Brexit Party themselves, have conceded will cause 30 years of hardship?

You're welcome to suffer that, as a Remainer.

I will keep fighting.

@Gronky Novartis. I'm on a reduced dose and am considering how much further I could safely reduce in order to not risk running out in the case of a shortage.

War?? Really?

Our children will survive as we will too.

What do you think is going to happen Stealth?

Results from Yorkshire and Humberside are coming through from Leeds.

The Brexit Party has the majority.

I wonder how many of these Brexit Party MEPs will go 'Ah. Hang on...' once confronted with sitting in the European Parliament.

How many, for the first time, begin to understand what the great European Experiment, post WW2 means; whether they'll feel angry with themselves for being so easily manipulated.

@StealthPolarBear I feel the same as you. What are the hard core leavers going to do when they realise how wrong they are?

Dotty a) I am hoping for more than 'survival' for my kids, tho happy if that's your highest aspiration for yours; and b) can you be sure?

To be frank ANY deal that weakens our alliances with those most geographically close to us could(!) result in war of some description

NATO agreements are separate from the EU.

Not hard to see the link between laughing at momentous change- then finding out the hard way that it will affect you.

I have a hard time believing that Iranian women would have been unaware of the consequences of a revolution lead by an avowed follower of Twelver Shia Islam.

Novartis.

Fortunately, they are already creating additional centralised stockpiles within the UK to meet demand and, while they are a Swiss company, they do have manufacturing sites outside the EU.

@StealthPolarBear also in NE just outside Darlington. Not surprised at Brexit Party getting two seats but it still feels like a blow to the stomach coupled with the ongoing fear about what no deal Brexit will do to this area. People are so bloody short sighted can't they see they'll end up with less money in their pocket?

'Another time a leave voter was quoted as saying that hey it was fine....after Brexit if the ecinomy suffered they would just get a job in Germany instead. '

Sounds like a twat leaver I know. He merrily said he planned to retire in Greece. Er, clearly you won't be now. The sheer arrogance....