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What are you most looking forward to POST-Brexit?

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Pumperthepumper · 15/12/2019 17:42

I was a remain voter, and voted tactically against the Tories. I lost.

But onwards and upwards! We’re getting Brexit in January, like it or not, so I was just wondering what everyone was looking forward to the most?

I asked on a different pro-Brexit thread but nobody gave me an answer.

For me it’s the 350 million to the NHS with no trade deals with Trump. Or the continuing Peace in NI with no messing around with the GFA. Or the trade deals we’ve been promised without any reduction in standards.

I’m so ready to be convinced of how brilliant Brexit will be! Let me hear your positives, please Flowers

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Peregrina · 18/12/2019 10:53

JanetWeiss - I too feel I will be picking up the pieces. I really don't want to "get behind" changes which involve lying and cheating, and kicking the poor and vulnerable.

JassyRadlett · 18/12/2019 11:29

And most of all I'm looking forward to when people who didn't get their own way get the hell over it and start contributing to the change happening in the country instead of acting like my two year old when he is told no.

I’ve spent most of the last three years of my professional life contributing to make the change as smooth and positive as possible for large numbers of people - or at the very least to minimise disruption and negative impacts. It absorbed huge amounts of time and energy that frankly I would have much preferred to spend on other things, but it’s needed doing so I and many others have rolled up our sleeves - regardless of what we think about Brexit itself.

What have you been doing to contribute to the change?

ListeningQuietly · 18/12/2019 11:49

Brexit will be dominating the news for the next decade

so by the time I retire I'll be able to enjoy Post-Brexit newspapers

Torchlightt · 18/12/2019 12:00

I'm on a low income and have already lost a lot of money because of Brexit. It will get much much worse. I'm looking forward to working my guts out on a job which pays less than minimum wage (can't explain) as my small business continues on its downward path.
More of a genuine pro - my DD and I are learning how to garden, as we've taken on an allotment in preparation for no deal Brexit / price rises. My DD is also taking learning foreign languages very seriously, as it may help her out of shitfest Britain.

Torchlightt · 18/12/2019 12:06

fedup21 - that's very concerning. Can I ask which part of the country you're from?

Jason118 · 18/12/2019 12:32

I think @fedup21 is from England @Torchlightt

Torchlightt · 18/12/2019 12:40

But which part of England?

NoMorePoliticsPlease · 18/12/2019 12:42

I am looking forward to everyone shutting up

Jason118 · 18/12/2019 13:31

@Torchlightt it doesn't matter, outside big cities it's pretty much the same everywhere

DrivingMsCrazy · 18/12/2019 13:34

I'm looking forward to my Tory voting, Leave voting, flag waving, racist, xenophobic, homophobic neighbour discovering the meds she needs to stay alive are no longer free and are now US extortionate prices.
Maybe she will have to sell her house to fund them and I'll finally get rid of her. That's the only positive I can see.

Torchlightt · 18/12/2019 14:18

One of the many things I have got wrong about the UK is thinking that on the whole people were tolerant of other cultures / races.
I hope that people are a bit more tolerant in Scotland, but maybe not?

Torchlightt · 18/12/2019 14:24

Brexit has made me much more politically aware, and more cynical generally. Maybe a positive? And it's played a part in my feeling more open to other EU countries. I value the EU more than I used to, and I'm exploring ways for DD to emigrate. I've polished up my languages. I've been abroad a few times since the EU Ref, having stayed in the UK for holidays for a long time prior to that. I felt I should visit other countries while it was still easy and cheap to do so. I've started reading/watching the news from other EU countries occasionally, to get their viewpoint.
Of course, all those advantages would remain if we pulled the plug on the stupid idea of leaving.

joystir59 · 18/12/2019 14:27

We will never be post Brexit. The trade and movement of goods and people negotiations wi all go on for years and years.

CactusAndCacti · 18/12/2019 14:34

And most of all I'm looking forward to when people who didn't get their own way get the hell over it and start contributing to the change happening in the country instead of acting like my two year old when he is told no

The ones of us who 'didn't get their own way' are also generally those who are on the front line contributing already and dealing with any of the fall out. We will not be able to 'get the hell over it' because we will be faced with the effects everyday.

dimsum123 · 18/12/2019 14:38

Can't wait for the poor who voted for the Tories and Brexit not being able to get their medicines because the NHS won't be able to afford to buy them from JRM's friends in the US, not being able to afford food which will be much more expensive and poorer quality as EU standards won't apply, and there'll be tariffs applied, when they lose their jobs as businesses move into the EU.

When worker's rights are stripped away, when they can't claim compensation for flight delays because that right was granted under EU law along with many many other EU consumer rights and protections are stripped away.

I'm looking forward to them moaning and complaining and being told it's what they voted for, the fools.

And we are going to be reading about brexit for the foreseeable future to the foolish PP poster who thinks it will not dominate the papers from January. The new trade deals will take years and years to negotiate, from our now much weaker position.

The sheer ignorance and stupidity and foolishness of Brexit voters astounds me. They are in for an extremely nasty shock soon and it serves them right.

Aposterhasnoname · 18/12/2019 14:41

I'm looking forward to my Tory voting, Leave voting, flag waving, racist, xenophobic, homophobic neighbour discovering the meds she needs to stay alive are no longer free and are now US extortionate prices.
Maybe she will have to sell her house to fund them and I'll finally get rid of her.

Translation, my neighbour has different views to me therefore I hope she loses her home and gets very ill, possibly dies.

Another example of the caring inclusive left in action.

yolofish · 18/12/2019 14:49

i don't wish ill on anyone who voted to Leave (apart from the likes of JRM, the hedgefunders, the money market players). The fact that people who voted to Leave are going to find themselves very much worse off is sad. However I will admit to schadenfreude - you chose this, you deal with it, and you Tories - you own it.

Really, I'm hoping above hope for sunlit uplands and unicorns for all - triumph of hope over experience I guess.

Copperblack · 18/12/2019 14:53

I’m looking forward to European holidays where my kids can’t use the data on their phones so converse joyfully with us on their tech detox 😀

Jason118 · 18/12/2019 14:53

It seems @Aposterhasnoname would be quite happy with a racist homophobic neighbour. I wonder who he/she lives next door to?

yolofish · 18/12/2019 14:56

Translation, my neighbour has different views to me therefore I hope she loses her home and gets very ill, possibly dies.

TBF, if you've ever had a nightmare neighbour then you don't know how you'd react... been there, got that T-shirt (not the murder one, just the calling the police 8 times in 2 days while he beat his wife one)

DuckWillow · 18/12/2019 15:01

Having read the Boris thread I am not surprised MN have locked it. There are some good posts on there among the horrible ones which is a shame as they will be lost if it is deleted.
I know feelings are running high but the talk of poisoning and death was horrible.

Stayinyourfridge · 18/12/2019 15:02

Farage losing his job as an MEP along with his band of terrible Brexit MEPs & not having to shudder and cringe I. Embarrassment at their behavior in the EP.

DuckWillow · 18/12/2019 15:06

Aposter I have a neighbour like this too. To be honest his biggest shock will be when he discovered that immigration will still happen even post Brexit.

I have to think it will still be fine ...my biggest worry was that we use some medical supplies we don’t produce here which cannot be stockpiled. However it can still be brought in by air ...I suspect this may be more expensive but it will at least guarantee we have what we need.

There will also be a two year transition and I expect things will continue pretty much as usual during that time.

After that we will be in our own but hoping many trade deals will be sorted by that point.

Peregrina · 18/12/2019 15:19

I thought we were down to a one year transition now, with all the faffing around that went on. Of course, Johnson might be able to pull off the extension that he wants to legislate against.

Devereux1 · 18/12/2019 15:23

I am looking forward to the implementation of democracy, at last.
I am looking forward to having the referendum honoured, and of being heard, at last.
I am looking forward to the end of uncertainty and a parliament that actually gets things done.
I am looking forward to Brexit, to gaining control back, to this country being great again.