Do you judge people on how they voted?

[Rock4please]

Just that really. I used to have an open mind on meeting somebody new but, if I discover that they voted leave, I am not interested in furthering the relationship. Similarly, with Americans, I don’t want to associate with anyone who supports Trump.

Am I being unfair and narrow minded or do you judge new people in a similar way?

Who said anything about shooting people? Remain are already damaging the country by not following the democratic vote!

You definitely wouldn't be my friend as I'm a Brexiteer and a Trump supporter. Can't wait for Halloween. For the life of me I can't imagine why anybody loves the EU.

Remain are already damaging the country by not following the democratic vote!

This is bullshit.

I voted leave but can’t bear Trump, or Boris or Halloween for that matter.

I have not RTFT but to answer the original post, I am a EU citizen by birth and I did ditch a friend who voted Brexit. Apparently "I was the right kind of immigrant" according to her.
I said she was the wrong kind of friend

Never regretted it

I would not be friends with a Trump supporter either.

It feels very Westboro Baptist church in here...

Will my friends burn in hell? It seems so.

And the situation is different now from how it was three years ago, with our new PM talking as though we were at war with our closest friends, allies and trading partners. I just can’t understand it and I just can’t understand why anyone would support it unless they are mad or racist or both.
I haven't seen any evidence of being close friendship or being allies. Trading partners to a point as we have a huge trade deficit. You don't treat your friends the way we are being treated.
All we want is to be able to stop the huge contributions as we believe it's unfair for the UK to be supporting an undemocratic institution that offer very poor value for money.

Anything that goes wrong for the next 50 years will be blamed on the facist brexiters!

As for this, if there are floods or other disasters then no, surprisingly I won't blame Brexit. But when there are food and medicine shortages, further years of austerity leading to more poverty and suffering, or small businesses being forced to fold then yeah I will blame a lot of it on Brexit. How much fucking money has been wasted on the shit show so far?

BlueJag

When Trump told four ethnic minority congresswomen to 'go home' do you think he was racist?

EllebellyBeeblebrox no it’s not. You’ve allowed our useless parliament to fanny around for 3 years not having to make a decision

I wonder how many people actually remember why the referendum was called?

@KennDodd. Did you watch the whole comment?

Democrat - who puts you up to post on MN?

I have allowed our useless parliament? Double bullshit. Our useless government have made a fucking mess of this from the start, by going ahead with the referendum in the first place.

"I wonder how many people actually remember why the referendum was called?"

Ding Ding Ding To try and heal the eternal rift between the moderates and the rabid headbangers in the Tory party!

What do I win!

I have always had friends across the political spectrum. I used to be a political activist and always found I had more in common with people who were interested in politics (even if I didn't agree with them) than with those who were not interested.

I still have friends who are back most parties and both leave and remain voting friends.

The ones I struggle with these days are Scottish Independence Yes voters. I lost quite a few friends in the Scottish Referendum who were voting yes and couldn't comprehend why other people were voting no. It got so heated and people got so offensive I had to give up on some pretty long term friendships.

Its settled down a bit but I still find people who are mega enthusiastically yes are too in your face about it and pretty intolerant of others views. And I don't like the anti--English undertones that often accompany it.

@MrPan who puts me up?? English please

@DorisDaysDadsDogsDead nearly right. There was a general unrest in the country. Germany are also calling for a reform within the EU. it’s a system that no longer works

The ones I struggle with these days are Scottish Independence Yes voters. I lost quite a few friends in the Scottish Referendum who were voting yes and couldn't comprehend why other people were voting no. It got so heated and people got so offensive I had to give up on some pretty long term friendships

Only Yes voters? Because that's not my experience, it happens on both sides of the vote.

Incidentally DP and I walked to the Indy ref polling station with our No voting neighbours, and we even went for lunch afterwards!

Literally nobody, voting either yes or no in the Indy ref had any clue that an in/out EU referendum would lead to this. Barely anybody thought a Leave majority would win. Remember Boris Johnson's panicked look as the result came in?

@MrPan Are you having a tantrum because someone spoke out against you? Isn’t this exactly what the OP is about?

And I don't like the anti--English undertones that often accompany it.

I don't either and I call it out if and when I come across it. Because independence isn't about being anti English and it isn't what the vast majority of Indy supporters are about.

That said, I don't like the anti Scottish shite that flies in the media, on here and in parliament. So again, your post is very one sided.

Predictable but not really very balanced.

"nearly right. There was a general unrest in the country."

Yes, but only around austerity. Barely anyone gave a scoobies about the EU until the referendum was called to heal the rift in the Tory party, as stated as can be seen by UKIPs polling results in the period before the referendum was called. And that's despite most of the papers running an anti-EU propaganda campaign for literally decades!

I'm not sure I'd know tbh. I don't find people tend to go around shouting about who they voted for

There was a general unrest in the country
No there wasn't. Polling suggested 4% of the electorate said the EU was an important issue before the referendum, I'll try to find a link. I'm 50, before the referendum I had never had a conversation with anybody in my life about the EU, I've asked other friends this (both Leave and Remain voters) they agree, it just never came up before. This is apart from one person I know, UKIP member, Farage supporter who said it was talked about all the time.

I'll try to find the link.