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Biting my tongue....

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Normanpriceeh · 23/09/2019 10:27

Am in a cafe listening to two women having a conversation about brexit. Views are:

  • It's the EU's fault that our schools are underfunded, because we put too much money into the EU
  • The economy will "balance out" after we leave because the EU needs us as much as we need them
  • All immigrants will still be welcome here because voting leave wasn't about that

Do people really think that the reason our schools are underfunded is the EU Confused?!

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Bluntness100 · 23/09/2019 10:32

No, that would be silly.

lonelyplanetmum · 23/09/2019 10:37

Please just go over and show them this chart.

Point out annual EU membership fee compared to expenditure on education.

Biting my tongue....
bellinisurge · 23/09/2019 10:50

Just imagine the chickens coming home to roost when the ignorant blankers can't afford to pop out for a coffee after a No Deal Brexit because either the economy has tanked or there's civil unrest and it's not a good idea to be out and about. As per Operation Yellowhammer not dystopian fantasy.

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Normanpriceeh · 23/09/2019 11:04

I think they would still blame that on the EU bellini

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bellinisurge · 23/09/2019 11:09

I think that falls squarely into "Fuck 'em" territory. Blaming other people is Quitling classic behaviour. Expect to see more if we No Deal. Dicks.

MrsMaiselsMuff · 23/09/2019 11:10

They'll still be there bellini, drinking their refillable Wetherspoons coffee and slathering over the latest Daily Mail headline.

"It's all the fault of the Lisbon Treaty you know, coming here and stealing our children and making up armies that don't exist..."

bellinisurge · 23/09/2019 11:13

If it wasn't for the damage No Deal would do to the GFA, I would shrug my shoulders and say "fuck it, hope they suffer".

placemats · 23/09/2019 11:51

Ask them if it's ok for husbands to walk away from the marriage without a deal? And what the consequences would be for society.

berlinbabylon · 23/09/2019 11:56

They'd argue that the UK is the abused wife and so it's fine to walk away without a deal.

bellinisurge · 23/09/2019 11:57

Yep, they definitely think we are being abused. Dicks.

placemats · 23/09/2019 12:00

They can argue all they like, but the UK is being the abusive husband.

Even more pertinent with the current prime minister.

PlausibleSuit · 23/09/2019 12:03

BIL was on a stag do in Bristol the other weekend, with a predominantly Brexit-supporting group.

According to BIL, one guy was describing how badly austerity had hit him, his family and his area. Then, in almost in the same breath he was advocating for no-deal Brexit and claiming that 'some hardships are necessary' and that shortages would be 'character-forming'. He could not would not see the dissonance in what he was saying.

There seems to be a belief held by many Brexiters according to BIL it was certainly evident that night in that pub that even in the event of shortages, somehow they will be alright because they voted to leave in the first place. Brexiters will be looked after by the mysterious Them and it'll be 'remainers' who will bear the brunt and that remainers somehow deserve to experience food and medicine shortages.

It's downright weird.

MrGsFancyNewVagina · 23/09/2019 12:04

There’s no point in taking to people like that, because they don’t want to believe you. When they can’t afford their coffee made from coffee beans imported from abroad and their croissants made with sugar from abroad, they’ll just start blaming the ‘foreigners’. It’ll go from, “they can stay” to, “we can’t afford them, we need to look after our own, etc”. If people think there has been an increase in racism now, wait until those who are secretly racist, realise the country is fucked.

DGRossetti · 23/09/2019 12:13

Being blunt, unless they are going to vote (and we know almost 1 in 3 doesn't so the odds are ... interesting) no one gives a fuck what they think.

Mamamia456 · 23/09/2019 13:59

Normanpriceeh - Don't listen in to other people's conversations then - how rude!

bellinisurge · 23/09/2019 14:04

Surely the lesson is don't spout controversial shit that everyone can hear and spoil their bloody coffee.
I don't discuss my views on Brexit within earshot of randoms.

DGRossetti · 23/09/2019 14:05

Don't listen in to other people's conversations then - how rude!

The contrary view is don't have conversations that go beyond your table - how rude.

Personally I was giving the OP the benefit of any doubt and taking it on faith that they were in a position not to unhear what the people were saying.

BlackeyedGruesome · 23/09/2019 14:06

If people talk loud enough to be overheard, there is not a lot one can do about it.

MockersthefeMANist · 23/09/2019 14:17

It's like the "outrage" over our 0.7% overseas aid budget. Most folk who are "outraged" have no idea what 0.7% is. They think it is seven-tenths, or seven hundredths. It is 0.007, seven thousandths.

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Normanpriceeh · 23/09/2019 14:24

Don't listen in to other people's conversations then - how rude!

Oh get a grip, they were talking extremely loudly in a very tiny cafe 🙄

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Mamamia456 · 23/09/2019 14:46

Yeah course they were.

bellinisurge · 23/09/2019 14:51

@Mamamia456 , what would you say if the gobshites in question were loudly spouting an opinion different to yours?

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Normanpriceeh · 23/09/2019 14:54

46Mamamia456

I can only assume you have never overheard anything anyone has ever said in public Confused

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DGRossetti · 23/09/2019 14:56

I could brief everyone here on what's going on in the lives of the people that go early morning swimming when I do, if I wanted. Not that they have ever told me, but it's impossible not to overhear while we're queuing ...

MrsTerryPratchett · 23/09/2019 17:56

Can people close their ears? That's quite the skill.