For those of us quietly sad about leaving the EU.

[DioneTheDiabolist]

I'm not making a song and dance about it. I'm not falling out with anyone over it. I dont want to debate it. I'm just sad about it.

And that's ok.

Anyone else with me?

Yes. Really sad and sick to death of seeing it on TV. So gutted.

So what I can assume is the people that are sad either work in the EU, work for Eu or companies that are EU funded, or are married to EU citizens

No to all of the above.
But I wanted my dc to have all of the above opportunities easily available to them.
(DH has worked in another EU country in the past)
I also don't think it is a sensible idea economically or socially although that is a discussion for another thread.
Leave have won, they cannot insist however that those of us who think this is a terrible idea stop thinking, feeling or talking to each other.

Some of us are also sad about friends or simply other people who we know are suffering due to the implications of brexit, as described above by subtracting
It's called empathy.

Yes, this.

Sad here too

Ok @Hester54 - I’ll bite.
I’m sad that my DS won’t enjoy the same freedom of movement we have thus far, and won’t be able to see his cousins and aunts and uncles so often anymore.
I’m sad that the rights afforded by the EU to pregnant women, those on a low income and the disabled will no longer apply.
I’m sad that there has been a welling up of intolerance and racism
I’m sad that the country I used to love is divided
I’m sad that people haven’t had access to enough education and didn’t have enough common sense to see past a campaign of lies.
I’m sad that people were “tired of experts” and bought into fake news and alternative facts
I’m sad for academia and science - the majority of grants for research in this country were EU funded and we won’t have access to them anymore.
I’m sad for low income communities who were being shored up by EU funding and seduced into effectively voting for themselves
I’m sad that the peaceful unity my grandfather fought and bled for has been shattered.
I’m sad for people who need long term medication - there are already supply shortages from the uncertainty and it isn’t going to be possible to maintain supply whilst we renegotiate our agreements. Particularly epipens and insulin.
I’m sad for the NHS, which I love with all my heart. Boris is already on a mission to tip us over the edge so he can sell the broken pieces to America now that the EU isn’t there to protect it.
I’m even sad for leavers - pride comes before a fall.

Do let me know if you’d like more reasons to be sad - I have plenty others.

sameday.
Yes the war ended in1945 but like the First World War it had had a lasting effect on people’s lives, lost family members, homes and the attempted wiping out of a race. The elders in my family were glad to enter Europe because they saw it a way to ensure that we and our children didn’t have to go through the same thing.

I'm sad but I won't show it to leavers so they can gloat. I'm sad and worried about the future, I just don't trust this government to sort everything out properly and it's the most vulnerable who will suffer the most. I'm very sad that you can't even have a conversation about it anymore because you get called 'remoaner' 'treacherous', sick of the narrative that remainers were being obstructive and trying to block and thrawt their 'win'. There's been no working together for what is best for the country we all have to live in. Just mud slinging and each side thinking the other is 'undemocratic'. I hope the leavers realise what they have done if things go wrong, sadly I think they'll just blame the eu and remoaners.

So what I can assume is the people that are sad either work in the EU, work for Eu or companies that are EU funded, or are married to EU citizens

That would be a very silly assumption

@mylaptopismylapdog I love how old people's opinion is revered as long as it matches up with one's own...

I’m sad it’s taken this long to get here. We all voted, we had a decision and a group of MPs decided they knew better and thwarted leaving earlier. We would be much further down this process had they done as the vote wanted.

I’m sad that neither side come out well in this, that neither side is prepared to work together. I’m sad that people are saying they can’t be friends with anyone who voted different to them, showing a total lack of tolerance

I’m sad that people can’t just move on

I’m sad that people can’t just move on
To where?
What do YOU want from Brexit?
Will you be happy with the shit ton of compromises coming down the track?

I'm actually sick.

"Work together" is the new "scapegoats at the ready."

Sad here too. I have very happy memories of being an Erasmus student - getting my Erasmus Grant in ECU (how old! - google it) - and spending a super year in Germany.

My job is totally Europe oriented - I am an EMEA specialist and "head of" my function for the EMEA region for a US group.

I shall miss being a European.

DH is away tonight. I'm going to sit here, get quietly pissed and cry into my wine. I think somewhere in the back of my mind I was in denial it would actually happen, then I woke up this morning and here we are. We are losing so much it's devastating.

You’re still a European FanSpamTastic.

I'm sad too. I posted these today on Facebook & my European friends who are UK residents Liked them. Some have suffered anti Polish abuse, anti Portuguese abuse, had to apply for 'Settled Status' with all the uncertainty that brings etc.

Found myself crying at the images of the EU Parliament singing Auld Lang Syne to the British MEPs. It's a song that's always made me cry but suddenly it seems to have a much deeper significance....

“I guess if you're someone who lives in Britain with no plans to leave, is married to someone British, works in Britain, goes on holiday once or twice a year and plans to retire here then I can see why perhaps you wouldn't think it's a great loss.”
I’m all of the above and I think it’s a fucking pile of shit. Billions and billions of pounds that could have been spent on something useful. Making this country a laughing stock for our stupidity. The small-minded nationalism of Farage et al. The cavalier attitude to those with families across Europe.

@DioneTheDiabolist

I am so with you. I have a heavy feeling and just need to get past 11pm tonight. I know what the EU has brought to my DCs (all adults) and I am gutted that their children (not yet but who knows...) won't reap the benefits that they have.
My DCs were so so upset when the vote came through in 2016

I'm very sad. I'm gutted that we have chosen to stop belonging to something bigger than ourselves, that we have chosen to be insular and have chosen risk and uncertainty over stability.

I'm angry that I've spent my entire working life thus far in the shadow of the financial crash and just as things should have been righting themselves for a bit we've been plunged into further decades of economic uncertainty and it's entirely self inflicted.

I wouldn't trust Boris Johnson et al to tell me the time whilst we looked at the same clock and I'm as certain as I can be that they will do a piss poor job on the detail.

I'm sad that something which was a serious issue for approximately 7% of the population a few years prior to the referendum has irrevocably divided this country and turned us into a global embarrassment.

I'm sad that I now feel ashamed of being British rather than proud.

Just to add....
This is what brought the sadness on for me...

www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/led-by-donkeys-brexit-message-1-6492234

Projected on to the White Cliffs of Dover today..

'This is our Star, look after it for us'

That video :'(

@FenellaMaxwell

I so admire and agree with your post of 18.22

I’m really sad.

I have a long list of factual reasons why I’m sad and at the top is that no-one - absolutely no-one - can guarantee any tangible benefit from this shitshow and that we have already spent more trying to exit the EU than we have cumulatively given.
But I’ll keep the other facts to myself as it’s a quietly sad thread.