What are you most looking forward to POST-Brexit?

[Pumperthepumper]

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

Feelings all @Devereux1 but nothing tangible. I'm pleased for you but it's all in the mind

This is my favourite one:

I am looking forward to Brexit, to gaining control back, to this country being great again.

It’s brilliant because it’s positive and patriotic and cheerful - and completely, totally, unequivocally meaningless. It means absolutely nothing. What control? What greatness? Who cares?

Great game, beautifully played.

Devereux can I ask what 'taking back control' means and when was the UK great? Are you talking about the 19th and early twentieth century when poverty was rife or when Britain had colonies, do you actually know what was done to the people of these colonies to make ' Great Britain'.

I love it how, in one comment, my thoughts are described as unequivocally meaningless, meaning absolutely nothing. It's a game apparently.

You asked a question, what are we most looking forward to? I replied. Have some decency and be respectful of others, their thoughts, their feelings, their replies.

We don't have to jump through your hoops. That's even clearer now.

You don't get it do you? It means everything. It has done for 3 years.

Brexit no longer being a thing people anticipate and get excited about. Or a thing that dominates an election.

Looking forward to paying £50 to see my GP even though my regular visits are due to nhs failures in the first place.

@Devereux1 your thoughts are not meaningless, they mean something to you. They are not tangible to others, hence the replies.

I just like to know when Britain was great? Simple question.

Seeing the turkeys who voted for Christmas realise that the oven light is on.

You asked a question, what are we most looking forward to? I replied. Have some decency and be respectful of others, their thoughts, their feelings, their replies.

You didn’t reply - What’s control? What’s greatness? And ‘take back control - when did we lose it?

RaiseaGlasstoFreedom What do you mean by research, research, I have done plenty of that and listened to experts and can't find any positives on leaving the EU. I can't see how anyone's lives will improve in any way what so ever.

I am looking forward to Brexit, to gaining control back, to this country being great again

I’d like to understand what this means too. Clearly many people believe this, and it does actually sound good, but it’s so undefined that it could mean anything at all.

How will those of us being exhorted to stop moaning and make a success of Brexit know what your desired outcome is? What specifically are you looking forward to being able to do that you can’t do now?

I'm actually quite horrified by that post - "looking forward to that generation disappearing"... and generalising massively that older people have selfishly just taken and never considered others. That's really ageist and bigoted.

Torchlightt How you made me chuckle. Fortysomething here, bright, intelligent, knowledgeable. How completely sick of you to look forward to the generation that fought for your freedom to disappear. Sick and pitiful, but there are some like you, you have lost and you're on your way out. Bye bye.

I have no problem with posters hoping that Brexit makes Britain great it's the Again I have the problem with. The people of the colonies and the ordinary people of Britain suffered greatly in the past. Genuine question when was Britain so great that all reaped the rewards and there wasn't rampant poverty and hunger?

I know we’re all asking Devereux1 these questions but actually, there’s no point. People who say ‘take back control’ can’t explain why that’s so important, because they don’t know.

It may as well be ‘finger lickin’ good’ or ‘once you pop’ for all it means in relation to how the country will improve post-Brexit. Totally meaningless soundbites.

I know we’re all asking Devereux1 these questions but actually, there’s no point.

You're right, there's no point. I am not at your beck and call. We have done our explaining over three years. I came on here to answer your question, that was all.

People who say ‘take back control’ can’t explain why that’s so important, because they don’t know.

If you have to fabricate motivation like this to satisfy your own weaknesses, go ahead. We don't care any more. We have spent 3 years answering your questions, 3 years justifying our positions. If you don't listen, that is all about you.

You don't want to listen because you want to maintain your position of opposition. There is nothing in you that even accepts our perspective as valid, I mean look at your rude, immediate response to me.

If you want answers, read 3 years of explanations. We aren't going to keep telling you people.

I thought Great Britain was a geographical term, compared with Brittany, little Britain.

As far as I am aware, Great Britain hasn't shrunk hugely in size, so it can't regain something it hasn't lost. See also 'Sovereignty'.

And the usual ‘why should I tell you?’ - another Brexit soundbite.

You can’t give a definition for ‘make Britain great again’ because it doesn’t have one. It’s meaningless. You are fooling nobody.

Make Britain great again has the same racial undertones as Make America great again. And Devereux you haven't explained feck all, you just recite the same old lines but you either haven't a clue or know exactly what those lines ACTUALLY mean, either is not pretty.

So democracy

Why do you think that we did not have democracy whilst within the Eu?

Were you embarressed that the EU voting share was disproportionate to our size?

Make Britain great again

Are you saying that today Britain isn't great? Are you not proud to be British?

@MIdgebabe I'm not.
And it's a feeling that gets steadily worse over the last few years...

The Leavers have spent three years explaining precisely jack shit Devereux1
Our country was great in the EU. We made the EU stronger too, I really believe that.
If you think people will be 'nicer' now that we are not part of a unity of countries, even though the Brexit saga has uncovered rancour, bitterness and division like no other age in this country, I really don't get your perspective.
Do you perhaps think Brexit will help us reduce economic inequality and make us more welcoming to migrants and refugees and perhaps strengthen our social welfare provision? I support you in that, as that is what 'great' means to me.
If you think by gaining 'control' back although we never really lost it we have the clout not to cede it directly to the US, then I hope you are right.
If you think by 'getting our country back' we will get a country that works closely in partnership with other countries to achieve mutual goals and avoid global disasters, even though that means taking tough choices to help others which will disadvantage ourselves, then I agree with you there. The global climate crisis is going to hurt us all. It's not our country, it's everyone's. And we're stronger together.
I hope that is what you mean. Because that, I can agree with.