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I see the EU Remainers' PROJECT FEAR is alive and well.

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Day6 Thu 23-Nov-17 17:54:27

I look forward to us leaving the EU.

The scare-mongering Remainers write post after post predicting how awful it will be. (Yes, predicting...)

Anyone would think we were incapable of knowing right from wrong and desperately in need of Brussels to guide us, to make our laws, to impose trading tariffs, generally control us, tell us who we have to accept into the country and take BILLIONS from us for the privilege of that control.

Project Fear - we have recognised it.

We need to get on with leaving the EU, pronto, but Remainers delight in the delays, mostly caused by terrified EU officials worried about EU budgets and the UK forging ahead without it's stranglehold.

Optimism rules. Let's bin Project Fear. We see it for what it is.

GracesGranMK2 Fri 24-Nov-17 18:56:50

I wonder what the opposite of project fear is?

Day6 Fri 24-Nov-17 19:21:20

Day 6 trolling again without any real evidence for any of her statements- supported by minnions without any either

Yet another fucking patronising remark from a Remoaner belittling those who voted to leave.

See it for yourself folks.

I am as probably as well read about the EU as you are Jura.

The difference is I don't really feel the need to keep banging on about it or churning out positive links because...well....we WON the vote. The process of leaving will be long drawn out. I can cope with that. You see it as
some sort of "I told you so!" ammunition. It's quite sad.

Remoaners almost seem to want us to fall into an abyss...to fail, to not have a future. Such pessimism, gloom, anger, hatred, and such sour grapes, not just towards Leavers but towards the country. When will it end?

Sorry - you lost. Try to accept it.

Day6 Fri 24-Nov-17 19:23:10

WW - I wonder what the opposite of project fear is?

Acceptance.

suzied Fri 24-Nov-17 19:37:12

The difference is I don't really feel the need to keep banging on about it
What are you doing if not banging on about it?
Opposite of project fear= delusion

Day6 Fri 24-Nov-17 19:38:15

EUROPEAN voters’ apathy and hostility towards the EU project can be laid brutally bare today in a shock map of the continent which will set alarm bells bringing in Brussels.

An interesting study conducted by researchers from Cohesify, a Brussels-backed project which is looking to establish the impact of EU funding on attitudes towards the project.

Rising disenchantment with the dealings of EU is not just confined to the UK.

It found that people in areas which receive the most cash from the bloc’s Cohesion Fund, such as Eastern Europe and rural Spain, boast the only “positive” views of Brussels.

Two maps show voter apathy and the most Eurosceptic countries in the EU.

Well, well, well.

www.express.co.uk/news/politics/806664/European-Union-shock-map-voter-apathy-EU-project-Brexit

Day6 Fri 24-Nov-17 19:41:44

*What are you doing if not banging on about it?

I am enlightening you and others about the dodgy EU which you love so much. Just throwing a few things out there. Project Fear tells us often enough that we don't engage. grin

And of course enjoying some pleasant exchanges with Remoaners....

durhamjen Fri 24-Nov-17 19:44:58

What an awful lot of banging on about it, at length, from someone who says she doesn't.

Jalima1108 Fri 24-Nov-17 19:45:47

I see that Croatia is reported as having a 'neutral' view of the EU which may reflect what I have heard from people who live there; employment prospects have not improved and may be worse and some people are seeking employment outside the EU.
Perhaps not the brighter future that they were hoping for.

Day6 Fri 24-Nov-17 19:48:33

Opposite of project fear= delusion

So, think Leavers are deluded?

About what exactly? Care to enlighten us?

I am not in the least deluded. I know exactly what we are leaving behind and I am delighted we are getting out.

Again, you must have a crystal ball. How can you know Leavers are deluded if neither of us is aware of what the future holds? EU dignitaries certainly don't want us to leave. I wonder why?

Doesn't the term deluded apply just as much to Remoaners?

durhamjen Fri 24-Nov-17 19:50:32

I think you need to read and write that again, Day6, and try not to contradict yourself next time.

suzied Fri 24-Nov-17 19:51:06

Enlightening = banging on
Enlightening = repeating delusional beliefs about the sunny uplands of brexitland and refusing to see the reality of higher prices and lower living standards for the worse off
Enlightenment=refusing to see we have a government of incompetents who have no idea where we are going
Enlightenment = the willingness to blame all the countries ills on the EU and not our incompetent governments

Day6 Fri 24-Nov-17 19:51:18

What an awful lot of banging on about it, at length, from someone who says she doesn't.

I am engaging with you DJ.

You want to hear why Leavers want out of the EU you said. {grin} (Many a time.)

All you seem to be doing is throwing around insults. Refute my findings.

durhamjen Fri 24-Nov-17 19:54:12

I can never be bothered to read down to the bottom of any of your long speeches, Day6.
The swearing puts me off.

Day6 Fri 24-Nov-17 19:54:35

I think you need to read and write that again, Day6, and try not to contradict yourself next time.

Nope. Quite happy with it.

Neither side knows what the future holds, in or out of the EU. We have our preferences but neither side has certainties. Project Fear has proven to be a crock of unrelenting gloom.

None of us knows what tomorrow will bring, after all.

Day6 Fri 24-Nov-17 19:59:04

The swearing puts me off.

Yes, just like your condescension and belittling of Leavers and the superiority complexes and sneering of Remoaners displeases me.

suzied Fri 24-Nov-17 20:09:37

It’s a bit ironic that people who live in the better off regions of the UK, ( which mostly voted remain) will probably be OK come Brexitland, as but the people in the more impoverished areas , where Brexit votes were highest, will suffer most with the stagnation in growth and inflation which is predicted to last at least another 2 decades.
Delusional =the belief that we would have some magical sovereignty we didn’t already have, we’ll be rid of unelected rulers ( HM Q, H o L?), 350 pw for the NHS, that BoJo and DD have a clue what they are doing, we would no longer have any non English workers, ad infinitum. Oh but I forgot the highly intelligent Leavers didn’t believe any of the lies. It is hard to admit you have been deluded and most people will never admit it till many years down the line, by which time many of the Leave voters will be long departed.

trisher Fri 24-Nov-17 20:37:56

If you are jumping out of an aeroplane with an untested parachute over unknown countryside and you aren't terrified you are an idiot. It's nothing to do with any Project fear simply of realising that no-one has a bloody clue about the whole thing. And the Leavers who pretend everything is going to be wonderful are just deluded.

suzied Fri 24-Nov-17 20:37:57

Yes, just like your condescension and belittling of Leavers and the superiority complexes and sneering of Remoaners displeases me
I know that Leavers who post on here all have Oxbridge double firsts and are not typical. I could just as well point to the generalised picture of remain voters - metropolitan elite snowflakes etc. Whichever one you choose this has certainly caused social divisions which will not heal easily. Not to mention the reigniting of the potentially violent divisions in Ireland which really saddens me, that really would be turning back the clock and not in a good way.

Welshwife Fri 24-Nov-17 20:44:58

Blimey - I only went to Bookclub and out for a quick bite and all that kicked off!
Got time to read it all now as rugby on TV.

M0nica Fri 24-Nov-17 21:38:21

I do not think leavers are deluded, but in one of the worst run and most despicable campaigns I can ever remember, both sides lied about what the outcome for the country would be if the other side won and grossly exaggerated the advantages if they won.

It is not surprising that those least well off and in the most deprived areas of the country responded most to illusory offers of huge sums of money being available for health and social development budgets, nor that those in more affluent areas and who regularly travelled to other EU countries for work or leisure were concerned by suggestions that doing business with other EU countries would be so beset by travel and tariff restrictions that it would make exporting to EU countries impossible and that visas would be required every time you travelled over the channel.

At the end of the day, the country was pretty evenly split, with the leavers only a few percentage points ahead, leaving the uneasy feeling that a week or two either way the result could have gone the other way. But we have what we have and we need to make it work and the sight of the separate groups still fighting old battles just reflects the complete confusion and incompetence the government is showing in negotiating our exit.

Tegan2 Fri 24-Nov-17 22:12:59

'I know exactly what we are leaving behind'; so do I and that's why I don't want to leave. Prefer certainty over uncertainty any time. And still don't know where all these new trade deals are going to come from. Can't believe the interviews on Channel 4 tonight with brexiteers; none of them came up with a sensible reason for leaving the EU and yet their views weren't challenged.

durhamjen Fri 24-Nov-17 22:16:51

www.theguardian.com/media/2017/nov/24/robert-peston-interview-im-not-saying-britain-is-finished-but-our-current-problems-are-not-a-blip

Welshwife Fri 24-Nov-17 22:29:53

I read a report this afternoon warning about air routes etc if UK leaves with no agreement - and the EU have said that UK owned aircraft will not be able to fly over EU airspace and that the bilateral agreements which were previously in place will not be revived.
In some areas people are worried about taking and moving money abroad to the EU and possibility of limits to amounts - I hope that is not the case and I think it unlikely but at the moment it is difficult to know what to expect.

lemongrove Fri 24-Nov-17 22:32:42

Day6 I am not surprised that the insults are still being thrown in Leavers direction, they won’t accept it ( Brexit) even after it has happened I bet.
Every gloom and doom scenario that can be wheeled out, will be wheeled out ( see above offering with Peston) just the title of it makes me laugh.
Most of the trade deals will be still with Europe, and the rest of the world, but it seems it is preferable to constantly say ‘who will we trade with.’OMG what will we do, the sky is falling in and suchlike things!

Tegan2 Fri 24-Nov-17 22:36:00

But we already trade with Europe and the rest of the world; I just want a few facts and figures ie which countries, what will we trade, what will the terms be etc etc Oh, of course, you can't tell me that because it hasn't been arranged yet; silly me....

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