to still be angry about Brexit?

[mrsmootoo]

I've mentioned this before and got shot down - 'move on', 'we won, you lost', 'red wall was justified', 'democracy' (although as Brexiter David Davis said, democracies can change their minds) etc etc. Anyway, if anything I am even more angry now than in 2016! Seeing queues at Dover/airports etc (I know not only down to Brexit, but it makes it worse) just reinforced it. I'm not going to rehash all the reasons here, but am just interested in whether other people are still as furious as I am. (And I do know it's not doing my stress levels any good!)

Do people think there were never queues at Dover before?

There's no time limit on being pissed about stupid.

Because it's redefined our entire political landscape. It's like asking why Americans were/are obsessed with Trump.

‘I am waiting for the HRA to be axed.’

Do you not identify as human then?

Agree with all of that but don’t have much sympathy with pissed off Brexiteers - they have the hard border they wanted and isn’t it lovely

for pissed off Brexiteers

I voted for Brexit and am very happy that I did.

I do think that if it hadn’t gone the way I wanted, I would have made my peace with it by now! (At least I hope I would)

Yanbu. I cannot get over it, I am still furious.

People who voted for brexit then can't understand why people are still talking about it years later are just the worst. What did you expect?

Yanbu!

Yes still fuming. The effects on our business are ongoing.

DS was born at the beginning of May 2016. My ILs are now mid to late 70s. I remember DS being less than 6 weeks old and taking him upstairs to breastfeed at ILs house (not to be done in front of them because FIL thought it unnatural) and hearing DP ask them why they voted leave. They said ‘don’t forget, we can remember when we made our own rules.’and ‘we don’t need any more Muslims coming over.’

my dad was half Bangladeshi and his father was Muslim, having come over to Britain in 1946. I have a photo of his naturalisation certificate, signed with a thumb print.

I went back downstairs and said that I had overheard and felt devastated that they felt that way about me and their new grandson. My grandfather was long dead by that point, but I pointed out that, without him, they wouldn’t have the new apple of their eye.

wveryone else I have spoken to about brexit, so fully aware this is anecdata, has cited ‘brown’ immigration or illegal immigrants as the reason they voted leave if they did so. It struck me that they were all woefully ill informed and it scared me for the future, and here we are.

Yes still irritated and astonished at the rank ignorance of 52% of voters. And they still want more! Bring on the right-wingers, who can be most vile? We'll find out as will many others as we 'embrace change'. Can't get a dentist? Or a GP? Or an ambulance? No beds in your hospital? Stuck in a lengthy queue at a port? Great innit?

I was angry about it for years, then had to detach.

Brexit has changed our lives as we are moving our business to Europe next year, and younger dc will move to international school to study the IB instead of a-levels. Eldest dc will finish uni course in uk then join us. I’ve also been learning a new language, started in lockdown with a view to moving away from uk, and I’m quite good at it now.

I don’t understand how brexiteers can be happy, unless they are just saying they are to save face. It would be better for the uk government to face up to the issues Brexit has caused so they work towards mitigating them, if that’s possible…

I am furious and hate the politicians who facilitated brexit and in particular David Cameron with his stupid referendum to appease the far right and Boris Johnson for all his lies. England does not feel like home anymore. Scotland feels different somehow and I hope they become independent and join the EU. As soon as that happens I am moving!

YANBU. How people could be so bloody stupid is beyond me. At least there are some that are sorry they voted out but there are always those that insist they did they right thing while they sit back and watch the fucking shitshow.

With all the pressures on the economy we are facing as a country, not just to have left the EU but to have also left the single market seems like madness.

I’ll never understand the logic for a hard Brexit, it seems like a very cavalier way to manage the economy of a country.

I’d much prefer our government to have spent the time and money that it’s costing to ‘deliver’ Brexit on managing our own country and funding our public services.

I've made my peace with it.
But i do get annoyed with the air of bafflement about why there are queues/no medication/no staff/cost of living up/exchange rate down/no goods in shops etc etc
Basically "project fear" turns out to be "project reality" and its very hard not to roll my eyes and blame leavers for the mess. But we are a democracy so I try to accept this is what the majority wanted

Yes, it was such a mistake. The fact that older voters were allowed to have a vote that held as much weight as the vote of younger people who would live with the result is so wrong.

I just got the legal bill relating to some stuff we needed to do at work. It's 40% more expensive than the last time we did this in 2016 SOLELY due to the fact that we are no longer in the single market - all other costs are basically the same.

I wish I could send the extra 40%, which amounts to £143,000, to every single person who voted to Leave. Pure extra costs due to extra red tape and paperwork as we used to have a European passport to market into the EU, and now we don't. Pure hit to our bottom line as a business. Zero benefits to balance this out, literally none.

Also, I don't agree with people who say it's done and I just need to learn to live with it (looking at my own DH here). The campaigners against Roe v Wade started immediately after the decision was made in 1973 and never stopped campaigning until they finally got it repealed in 2022.

Yep, this!!

Yes, it makes me angry when I think about it. It's the sheer amount of money wasted on the whole thing, that and PPE for covid that was overpriced, faulty and thrown away. So much money wasted.

I'm a member of a few FB groups for Brits wanting to move/ retire to Spain. It is still possible if you're wealthy/ retired on a large pension.

But the number of people who join the group asking how they can move to Spain and work who are completely oblivious to what Brexit means is astonishing.

In the last few days there have been posts from a builder, nail tech, and carer asking how they can work in Spain. They can't. Inevitably someone from the group explains that to get hired their employer would need to prove that no other EU citizen can do the job, not just no other Spaniard. We're are at the very back of the queue and it's always but, but, but.... No. So much opportunity for us is gone. And that's just one little thing wrong with Brexit.

My dad voted Brexit "coz immigration." His dp is an immigrant...you cannot make this shit up.

She was devastated by Brexit.

Yanbu.

I have so many other things going on in my life, where I live, the rest of the country that I havent got the time or the inclination to think any further about this decision. I seriously worry about people who let one event define their existence. just shows you what a terribly unresiliant country we live in if this is still the case. It sounds a bit like that person that I am sure we all know who blames all her ills on the fact that she failed her 11+, or her teacher moved her down a set in Maths or she didnt have any siblings. stuff happens. some stuff we like and benefits us. some doesnt. There is an old joke: how do you know if someone is a vegan? give it 5 minutes and they will tell you. I feel this now applies to remainers too.