It would be interesting to hear from anyone who actually voted ‘leave’ at the time.
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My take- it’s an absolute sh*t show, and it’s the biggest, and worst, backwards political/economical step taken by ANY country in modern times.
It’s been a complete manipulation of UK citizens by the UK Government- turn the blame to the EU and let the turkeys vote for Xmas… and 50% of UK people bought the scam.
Personally, I have witnessed ZERO benefits from leaving the EU, but have experienced a significant amount of consequences.
Absolute bullsh*t and it makes me embarrassed to be British.
I concur. Not a day goes by that i don’t feel sick to my stomach with impotent rage at everything that’s been lost, and the ongoing, ever unfolding sh*t-show that the UK is now. Give me half an opportunity and i would be out of here like a shot.
It’s a pile of bullshit and one of the greatest swindles ever pulled on the British people. I have nothing else to say about it. Thinking about it is just tiresome and depressing. So that’s that from me. Now to mute this thread before my mood nosedives. Have fun, everyone!
as I waited behind 250 Latin American passengers to get through passport control in Madrid last week, and my two year old daughter got increasingly frustrated all I could think of were the sunlit uplands I was enjoying and how I didn’t want to retire to Spain anyway.
Beyond all the cost of living stuff and Tories just ripping into any personal rights we have…
My band went on an EU tour in October. We had to spend about £700 on a carnet (list of all equipment you are exporting), plus had to stop and get it stamped in and out of every country with different trade agreements. So:
out of UK
into France
out of Sweden, into Norway (one office)
out of Norway, into Sweden (one office)
out of Germany
into Switzerland
out of Switzerland
into France
out of France
into UK
out of UK, into NI (one office)
out of Ireland into UK (one office)
Each of those lines took from half an hour up to three hours. You can probably guess which country was useless and took three hours
Rough guess: 15hrs total (at minimum), over a two week tour, so an hour a day. No wonder I was tired at the end!
I’ve personally contacted the people I know of my generation (in my 30s) that voted for Brexit asking what positives they had seen, and none of them got back to me.
The only benefit I can see is disaster capitalism, the Tory’s can fuck us even harder if we’re all broke
I’ll be honest, no one is ever going to be able to convince me of the merits of Brexit. So much of what I write is charged with huge frustration and more than a sprinkling of anger. I doubt I’ll ever really get over it unless Scotland some day grows a pair.
Most Brexit voting people I know all regret their decision with one exception - my mum! For those in the UK, she is a Daily Mail/Express reading royal family loving nightmare. You will 100% know the sort. She still believes Brexit was right and there is no convincing her otherwise (which, being fair, is how I behave on the other side of the fence).
I can suck it up and deal with Brexit. It is what it is. It’s unlikely to impact me significantly enough in the long run that I will be out of work or broke before I retire but my word does it make my piss boil when I think of the opportunities lost for my two boys. But, I can’t do the classic parent thing of projecting issues onto them to grow up with similar prejudices. I need to teach/coach/help them work within the limits of what Brexit will offer in terms of career and life opportunities.
I think the people who I have least sympathy for in terms of right-leaning politics are those with one-foot into retirement who’ve led comfortable lives, benefitting from affordable-housing, generous pension plans, and lifelong employment - sitting there in a detached house, with 2 cars in the drive.
They’re some of the most mean-spirited people you can come by. What is it that they think foreigners, queers, the homeless and every other minority that they hate has deprived them of?
