To think that GN would be better moderated by older people?

Sodapop We can't have a Brexit free thread!
I will nip over to the Whitsuntide thread and ask GNers if they think that this Brexit thingy will be over by Whitsuntide 2019!

I do hope that you will soon become older and wiser Cherrytree59 and realise that you were conned, fooled and seriously misled in 2016. That was not your fault. Lots of good folk believed the Leaver's lies and thought that they, their families and everyone else in the UK would be better off after brexit.

Now we know that was not true. the leave campaigners promised something that was un-deliverable - that we could continue to enjoy all the wonderful benefits of EU membership while leaving the EU and paying no more contributions.

We would continue to enjoy peace in Ireland with no hard border, we would have friction-less trade with the EU and of course, with the many other countries in the world which have trade agreements with the EU.

At the same time we would be able to negotiate advantageous new trade agreements with lots of other countries.

It sounds great, doesn't it? I'm not surprised that you and lots of other folk wanted to believe it, but it was a con, a fraud. I'm sorry to say that you were fooled into believing you could have your cake and eat it.

If we have to have a vote on the TM deal, because our MPs cannot resolve this situation, I do hope you will look at the facts which have been revealed in the last three years.

Any kind of brexit will leave us worse off than we are now. So please join us in preventing any more damage to our country/.

Be nice for brexit to take a back seat in one or two threads, I think.

Yes it would be nice but the threat of brexit is the most important, and potentially disastrous, political development in our lifetimes.

Of course, we all try to get on with our lives from day to day, but those of us who are politically engaged and concerned for the futures of our children and grandchildren must do everything we possibly can to prevent our country from leaving the EU.

Interesting illustration of the difficulties of a mods job. One poster mentions a fact and another leaps in saying it's a 'smear'. I'm sure that neither post would be complained about, but if they were, what would e the verdict?

I don't find 'robust' argument offensive but I do think that the mods should act on personal attacks. By which I mean not attacks on a particular 'group' but on individual posters.

Any kind of brexit will leave us worse off than we are now.

That is your OPINION, not a fact.

Unless of course YOU can see into the future?

Brexit will make UK worse off, government forecasts warn

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46366162

but those of us who are politically engaged and concerned for the futures of our children and grandchildren...

You mean like Gransnetters? All of us?

Would any of us say we didn't give a damn? Can you just accept that we ALL care, and voting LEAVE means we care too?

OK no more from me on this thread regarding Brexit.

I totally agree sodapop and Cherrytree I'd do the thumbs up emoji thing if we had one!

Just look at the facts. Just look at the work done on behalf of this pro-brexit government, which has shown that ,beyond a shadow of a doubt, any kind of brexit would leave us worse off than we are at present as full participating members of the EU.

This is not just my opinion,. or the opinion of any other Remain supporting GNetter, it is our government's own analysis.

Why on earth should we settle for a "least damaging brexit" instead of revoking Article 50 and remaining in the EU?

Yet another thread falls victim to the insidious spread of Brexit.
Is nowhere safe?

Why has this thread turned into yet another thread about b.....y Brexit?

Please go away and post on the bl..dy Br...t threads, this is NOT one of them

MawBroon and grannysyb

I don't know but no thread is safe from bloody Brexit apparently.

Shall we all say bloody, lots of times?

Don't bother with the dots.

I'm going to lie down in a darkened room and stick pins in my eyes

Could you stick some in mine while you're there, please?

Is there any hope that after March 29th, Brexit won't be mentioned on any thread, ever again? she asked hopefully, but not optimistically

grannysyb asks ‘why has this thread turned into another about b....y brexit.’ The answer, in one word, is varian

It would certainly be good if b....dy brexit was stopped and we never mentioned it again.

Just stop bringing it into EVERYTHING ???

Perhaps you would like to start your own thread about Bloody Brexit varian - I'm sure you would get some takers.