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Craziest reasons for wanting brexit

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SistemaAddict · 09/08/2019 09:48

I've just been reading some of the comments attached to a bbc news article on brexit and found this gem:

"Remember the good old days when the postman would deliver your post in the morning and not the early afternoon?*
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#Brexit #Iwanttogoback"

I remember those days well. In 1991 I had a long distance "boyfriend" and if I was really lucky I'd get his letter in the morning post before I got the bus to school at 7.20am. If it wasn't in the first post then it would come in the second post around 10.30am.
My post has just arrived this morning but my mum lives a mile up the road and hers tends to arrive in the afternoon.

Some people will blame the EU for anything!

What's the craziest reason for brexit you've heard or read?

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MyCatPeedOnTheCurtains · 10/08/2019 06:08

To stop immigration, mainly of 'our coloured brethren'. (That's how she describes Muslims).

The Polish are alright though because they work.

To stop the EU telling us what to do.

From the woman who moved out of UK, to another country in the EU in late 2016.
A move that was planned prior to the referendum.

So she became an immigrant to the other country where the EU tell them what to do and voted on the future of a country that she would not actually be living in.

The full realisation of how Brexit affects Brits overseas is finally dawning....

GhostofFrankGrimes · 10/08/2019 06:27

In laws voted leave because Boris Johnson was a “nice man” and because turkey was joining. Work colleague voted leave because she didn’t expect them to win. I despair at the level of ignorance that has led the UK to this disaster.

namechange34 · 10/08/2019 06:42

School mum voted leave to stop the US taking over the UK. Wonder if the penny has dropped yet

BeardedMum · 10/08/2019 06:42

One leaver I know voted leave as a protest vote and regrets it. Don’t think he has clear ideas what he protested about and is now losing his job due to Brexit.

The other one reads too much Daily hell and is a massive racist.

KennDodd · 10/08/2019 06:46

Too many muslims coming over here.

SheSnapsThenSheFarts · 10/08/2019 06:54

The EU is an unelected gravy train. Still haven't managed to get my FIL to expand on that oft repeated little sound bite.....

wherearemychickens · 10/08/2019 07:04

One leaver I know I don't think really thought about her vote much at all, and then the day after in our office when there was lots of shocked chat said "oh why do we have to keep talking about this? Can't we move on?".

Um, no? You voted the wrong way if you wanted that to happen.

Someone else in the office who voted leave (remainer now) has avidly watched the news for years but can't bear it now.

Cobblersandhogwash · 10/08/2019 07:41

@NameChangerOfTheNorth yes, stupidity on both sides. But which side has caused our country great harm? 🤔

JiltedJohnsJulie · 10/08/2019 09:14

NameChange both of my parents were children growing up in the war and the 30’s recession. Both voted to remain.

My DM had been talking in her sheltered housing and one gem about the proposed shortages from the a leaver was “well, we’ll just go back to using newspaper like we did before.

DM is horrified at the thought of “going back to how it was before” and has now started stockpiling toilet tissue Smile

BackInTime · 10/08/2019 17:17

'Fed up of being told what to do by the Germans'
'So we can make our own laws'
'Because of what the EU did to Greece'
'Because Turkey is about to join the EU and we'll be invaded by Muslims'

flouncyfanny · 11/08/2019 15:54

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YeOldeTrout · 11/08/2019 19:10

"I want to give the establishment a kicking"

Judging by current govt, I guess people who went to Oxbridge or expensive private schools aren't establishment. Nor are loudmouth city traders, Tory politicians, disaster capitalists, inventors of expensive vacuum cleaners, pub chain owners, insurance company CEOs, children of Muslim or Indian immigrants. Nor are radio hosts, journalists, anyone who ever presented Have I got News for you in the Establishment category. Lots of these people are doing well out of Brexit. They didn't get kicked.

I'm not sure who is Establishment. Judges & Scientists, maybe.

cherin · 11/08/2019 20:23

“Because Syrians are at the gate!”

(Said by a recently naturalised professional with university degree :-O)

MockerstheFeManist · 11/08/2019 20:26

Aaaah Yes, the "Elite."

So lucky we are to have Bullingdon Boris, Jakey Big-House and Nigel from Dulwich College to save us from the Poshies.

Hello Hooray, what a nice day for the Eton Rifles....

HarrietSchulenberg · 11/08/2019 20:49

My cousin thinks a no deal Brexit will "stick it to 'the Erics'", apparently.

He also thinks it will "make England great again", "give us back our borders" and, in some way he can't articulate, make him the big man he thinks he should be.

He's a prize twat at times.

My parents think that Leaving will whisk us back to their youths when houses were cheap, fish and chips were wrapped in newspapers, corner shops were abundant and only white, CofE people inhabited their world.

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SistemaAddict · 11/08/2019 21:07

Who the heck are the Erics??

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Sashkin · 12/08/2019 04:12

I heard “Less black people” from quite a few patients. They were talking about my black, british-born nurses, who in turn were children or grandchildren of British citizens (mostly Windrush generation). Funnily enough they had no problem with the Finnish or Spanish ones staying. Fuck them, the racist cunts.

There was also the bloke I mentioned on another thread who wanted his carers to be university-educated nicely-spoken women of good family, not the chavs he was being sent currently. Think Austen-style well-bred spinster or widow living in genteel poverty and thus willing to wipe arses for £8.21ph. His thesis was that Brexit would make highly-educated professional women more desperate and willing to take on poorly paid and insecure zero-hours work. To be fair to him I think he was just completely deluded (he was pretty old, and remembered his family having a large staff in the 1930s/40s, and wanted to go back to that).

CrunchyCarrot · 12/08/2019 05:00

Who the heck are the Erics??

For some reason my brain went straight to Monty Python's Fish licence sketch...

Customer: Hello, I would like to buy a fish license, please.

Shopkeeper: A what?

C: A license for my pet fish, Eric.

S: How did you know my name was Eric?

C: No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut.

S: What?

C: He is...an...halibut.

S: You've got a pet halibut?

C: Yes. I chose him out of thousands. I didn't like the others, they were all too flat.

S: You must be a looney.

(and so on!) Grin

99mTc · 12/08/2019 05:17

Most of these reasons are really depressing to read, but this
Work colleague voted leave because she didn’t expect them to win.
just has to be the most stupid reason ever! Is this really how much thought some people put into their vote? Why vote at all then? I wonder how they feel about this now.

BagpussAteMyHomework · 12/08/2019 06:00

I think quite a lot of people voted for change without really understanding what they were voting about. I voted remain but to be honest I didn’t know all that much about the EU. I saw it as a successful peace project that I wanted to continue. I saw leaving as a risk to our economy. I also really disliked some of the people advocating it, such as Nigel Farage.

I’ve no idea what kind of deal we should be trying to secure, even after three years of wall to wall brexit journalism.

AlphaJura · 12/08/2019 06:52

Already mentioned but the lady on James o'Brian who wanted to go back to the good old days of fish and chips wrapped in newspaper Confused. It had nothing to do with the E.U. anyway! There's been some corkers on there, like the bloke who ended up saying he voted to lose his job 😂and it'll be a price worth paying because he 'had to do something' about wages going down.

BagpussAteMyHomework · 12/08/2019 07:21

Was talking to a stranger on a train a few months ago who voted leave. He was lamenting that the place where he lived used to be surrounded by fields and cows and is now housing. Not sure how leaving the eu is going to resolve that for him....

Alcoholtolerancegonetopot · 12/08/2019 07:35

I really don't understand the people who insist that the EU is a fascist organisation and that we need to leave the EU because fascism must be fought. Whilst simultaneously wanting us to cosy up to Trump's America (which I wouldn't call "fascist" yet but which certainly has more potential in that direction than the EU).

falcon5 · 12/08/2019 07:43

Oh god, the Hoover thing. And the light bulbs. Also see, using imperial measures which are now being determindly used with me. MIL I have no idea what Farenheit means. Plus... the EU "made up" the idea of use by dates and created food waste.

MrsTerryPratchett · 12/08/2019 20:37

But the Hoover's and bulbs and newspaper for wrapping is the slow, steady of the tabloids for the last few decades. It's maddening.

My great aunt voted Leave because she (with flecks of spittle in the corners of her mouth) "hates Europeans". She also hates black people, either British or not. She is in very poor health and will likely spend a couple of years in her British utopia before leaving the UK in this parlous state for her many kids and their many kids, who are all Remainers.