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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?*
*
#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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NameChangerOfTheNorth · 12/08/2019 21:26

Oh I remember a coworker now- because "Commonwealth" countries should take precedence for jobs and immigration. I suspect she meant Canada and Australia, rather than Zimbabwe and Pakistan, though.

JockTamsonsBairns · 15/08/2019 08:40

From the IL's - "to stop the threat of Saddam Hussein" Confused and because "Germany has too much power". They're not keen on discussing how things are going now, preferring to fall back on little nuggets like "putting the Great back into Britain", and "things were fine before we joined the EU".

Also, a little gem from DS1's friend, old enough by three days to vote in the referendum - "so we can smoke in pubs again". He didn't, and still doesn't, go to pubs so I'm not sure what his particular beef was with that one.

CountSnackula · 15/08/2019 08:46

Percolating coffee pots.

The EU said that they have to turn off after five minutes so that they don't waste electricity.

This was apparently the straw that broke the camel's back.

pfrench · 15/08/2019 12:26

So that we can send Abu Hamza's (innocent as far as I know) family back to 'where they came from'. They're living in a £1m pound house you know?

Because 'look, they can't even cut the grass verges'.

This vote will scare Cameron into getting back to the EU and getting a better deal. (This person didn't want to leave the single market, 'only a lunatic would do that', but now is convinced that they voted for no deal, and no deal is the only way we can do this.)

ginswinger · 15/08/2019 12:32

...Because it's not fair that the rest of Europe have ID cards they can travel with and I have to buy a passport....
I did argue that was more of a shengan issue than Brexit and ID cards are mandatory whereas passports are not. He agreed and said he would change his vote next time.

This is why I'd quite like a second stab at a referendum if you don't mind

Oranginna · 15/08/2019 12:38

Some people voted to control unskilled immigration. You may think that is a crazy reason, but the fact is that wages have risen steadily since the Leave vote as reported on the BBC yesterday. Others voted because they don't think the EU makes sound economic decisions. Time will tell if they were crazy or not.

Helmetbymidnight · 15/08/2019 15:07

yes a crazy reason if they thought the only way to control unskilled immigration was by smashing our economy.

they were/are ways avaliable to our govt- our govt chose not to implement them.

the economy is going down the pan and many skilled immigrants are leaving.

there is virtually no one left who thinks brexit will advantage our country anymore. even the brexiteer politicians who lied and said it would, have stopped trying to pretend that. its only a few numbskulls who still think brexit is going to bring us prosperity or less immigration.

MrsTerryPratchett · 15/08/2019 15:08

Some people voted to control unskilled immigration. You may think that is a crazy reason

I do. Because if British people wanted to pick fruit or work nights washing up in kitchens, they would already. They don't or can't. And yes, maybe if they paid 50 quid an hour, they would. I suspect what will actually happen is the economy will tank so badly that there won't be higher wages, people will just be desperate enough to do it.

GummyGoddess · 15/08/2019 15:22

Because I don't like waiting times at the GP.

Because we'll be thinner and walk to work again.

Because the food will be better quality.

Because everyone will pull together and be friends with their neighbours again.

Because there will be more independent shops.

No logic to any of those!

JockTamsonsBairns · 15/08/2019 16:24

....as reported on the BBC

GrinGrin That's a sure sign it's fake news then!

Gobbolinocat · 15/08/2019 17:39

Can posters saying leave voters did so for a range of reasons, some silly also agree remain voters did exactlythe same.

For instance I have heard remain voter saying she did vote r purely so she can still visit and go on the holiday in the eu Confused

One said she and her family have directly benefitted from the eu in particular freedom of movement, since her poor immigrant parents settled here in 1962GrinHmm

Another said her dc may want to go to uni in the eu, another thought the eu soley gave us billions and didn't realise its our own money being fed back.

Lots more but the best one was cheap holidays! They thought we wouldn't be part of the eu!

MaxNormal · 15/08/2019 17:50

But we won't be part of the EU.
Tbh most of those reasons don't sound that mad compared to the Leaver ones.

Helmetbymidnight · 15/08/2019 18:05

not exactly the same no.

for whatever their reason, leave voters voted to screw the economy, the GFA, the lives of millions of people, to take away rights, freedoms and science and environmental collaborations alongside gross racists. remainers did not.

can you not get the difference?

AuldAlliance · 15/08/2019 18:21

They thought we wouldn't be part of the eu!

Erm, they were right.

LatteLove · 15/08/2019 20:08

Another said her dc may want to go to uni in the eu

Yes, because that’s just as crazy as wanting bendy bananas and less Muslims Confused

Hoppinggreen · 15/08/2019 20:59

We won’t be part of The Eu, we may need Visas for a European holiday and it may be more difficult for dc to go to University in Europe so none of those are “silly” reasons for voting remain

bellinisurge · 16/08/2019 08:09

Does @Gobbolinocat realise that leaving the EU means we won't be part of tbe EU anymore. 😂 let's be kind and assume they mean part of Europe, as in the continent. Pretty sure EU rights come with membership of the EU and not geographical location.

Brefugee · 22/08/2019 12:56

Several people i have known for a long time told me they were voting Leave "to protest the establishment, but it's ok we won't win".

3 years later all except one (who is genuinely repentant at what it meant for me personally and the UK generally) are all "yeah, taking our country back" as though that was what they wanted all along. Frankly with some of them i believe that was always their true motivation (whatever it means) the others are having selective amnesia (especially when I remind them what they said, knowing how it would disrupt my family).

"immigrants" is my favourite though. They are going to be in for a bit of a shock.

ThatCurlyGirl · 22/08/2019 12:58

"Just fancied a change"

If you fancy a change get a haircut.

Frequency · 22/08/2019 13:08

Because no-one has jobs anymore. They did before we joined the EU.

I live in an ex-mining town. This person genuinely believes the EU closed down ship building, coal mining, the steel works and various other factories that were off-shored to China. He honest to God believes all these things will come back after Brexit.

He's chronically disabled and unable to work due to a lung disease that may or may not be down to asbestos he was exposed to while working in the aforementioned factories. He's a life-long smoker so it's not clear whether it was the fags or the asbestos that caused the most damage either way he is not going to he working down the mines he so desperately wants back and I doubt he would be happy for any of his children or grandchildren (who are all employed) to do so either.

Laniakea · 22/08/2019 16:44

My MIL voted leave because de Gaulle was ungrateful and rude to us (Brits) Confused

lovelygreenjumper · 22/08/2019 17:02

Because no-one has jobs anymore. They did before we joined the EU.

I have a relative in an ex-mining town who also sites this as a reason for voting leave. Apparently back in the 60s everyone could get a good job without needing qualifications and young families could all afford to buy a house with a garden. The we went in to the EU and got unemployment and silly house prices. I have tried to explain that a) lots of people lived in inadequate housing in the 60s and b) correlation and causation are not the same.
This is all said in the same breath as complaining that building new affordable housing near her might make her house (which she has no intention of moving our of before she dies) lose value.

ImNotYourGranny · 22/08/2019 17:05

My mum voted for brexit because Angela Merkel, David Cameron and George Osbourne are all lizard people in human form.

And because a report came out saying how some areas of London are no longer majority white people. She's never even been to London.

Alpacathebag · 22/08/2019 17:12

One woman I know said she voted leave because she thought our politicians “deserve a chance for a change”. What exactly she thought they were doing before, or what chances they don’t have, I have no idea.

Another one believed the big bus about money for the NHS. Got very offended when I pointed out there is nothing actually stopping the government spending that money now, they just don’t want to.

prettybird · 22/08/2019 22:00

"Because even though I believe in the EU, I'm not going to give that bitch Sturgeon the satisfaction of voting the same way as her, so as I expect Remain to win, I'll vote Leave just to prove that not everyone in Scotland agrees with her" HmmConfused