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INDEPENDENCE DAY!

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Lyndiloo Thu 30-Jan-20 04:35:37

Hurrah! We're getting OUT at last!

But it seems strange to me that there is so little talk/news on the media about this. Before the General Election everything was about Brexit. To the point that even I got sick to death of it! But it's all gone quiet since then. Are there to be no celebrations from all those who voted to leave? (Sad that Big Ben won't even mark this historic event.)

(I was talking to a young woman the other day, and she didn't even know that we were leaving the EU on Friday!)

I can't really celebate in style, as most of my family wanted to remain -otherwise I would have had a party! So it will be a bit of a damp squib for me!

I shall still open a bottle of champers and toast this great country of ours - our democracy, our integrity - and now, at last, our freedom from a corrupt and self-serving feudalistic state.

Barmeyoldbat Fri 31-Jan-20 22:20:25

Sad people who celebrate other people misfortunes, like losing jobs because of Brexit. Next to go will be Nissan. Enjoy your cheap french wine.

GracesGranMK3 Fri 31-Jan-20 22:16:23

Have you all no other friends to share this moment with that you have to come, where you know you will be met by comments from those not happy with either the vote or your attitudes, to "celebrate". Sad people.

Opal Fri 31-Jan-20 22:14:25

Oooooooh lots of sour grapes on here tonight. Raising a glass with you Urm, Cheers! grin

MaizieD Fri 31-Jan-20 22:09:12

It wasn't a bloody war, Ug. You didn't gain some sort of brilliant victory. Your vote has destroyed people's lives and livelihoods; taken more than half the UK to a place where it doesn't want to be and you can't even acknowledge the hurt you've done.

You've nothing at all to be magnanimous about.

jura2 Fri 31-Jan-20 22:07:33

A lot of nasty gloating *ssed gammon, more like.

GracesGranMK3 Fri 31-Jan-20 22:07:27

I think it's meant to work the other way round UG - unless you are a child and it's your mother helping you to understand how things are done.

I do keep saying it but the name-calling doesn't improve things it just brings you down to the level many always suspected you all were on.

Urmstongran Fri 31-Jan-20 21:35:12

1hr 26 minutes till we Leave ??

If the Remainers were gracious in defeat then of course we should be magnanimous in victory but as they are not , then let us celebrate from the rooftops!

There are a lot of Eyeores on here tonight.

Dawn22 Fri 31-Jan-20 21:10:46

VEGANSROCK
I back what you said at 5.23 yesterday 100%.
Brilliant rhetoric.
Common sense gone out the window and insanity will prevail.
Dawn.

GracesGranMK3 Fri 31-Jan-20 20:53:13

Labaik, Sajid Javid has written to ministers asking them to find cuts of up to five per cent within their budgets, in a letter obtained by Sky News and the Sun. So much for the end of austerity and enough money for the NHS and Care.

GracesGranMK3 Fri 31-Jan-20 20:49:00

You are posting on the wrong thread varian. This is the one for people who want to celebrate Independence Day.

You really are a bossy madam, aren't you? GN and all it's threads are for everyone unless you have voted against that too.

GracesGranMK3 Fri 31-Jan-20 20:47:09

This thread is a positive one about Independence Day but the gloom mongers still abound!

I understand that your whole persona is now wrapped up in a vote you took years ago Chestnut and that your future view of yourself will depend on how things go, but that does not mean you can tell other people what they believe or what they feel.

You have decided your identity depends on this vote. Many of us have an identity outside it. I have no idea what will happen if your identity is broken. We are not, as you insultingly say, gloom mongers but many of us are angry that such as a small proportion of our country has taken it in a way we didn't want it to go. We don't agree. You cannot make us agree. Your culture and mine seem so far apart I do not want to know people like you any more than I would have wanted to know those who took other countries to extremes and calling me childish names will not change my mind.

Nezumi65 Fri 31-Jan-20 20:04:17

That’s a definite something to celebrate!

Callistemon Fri 31-Jan-20 20:01:17

Bye bye Nathan Gill!

Nezumi65 Fri 31-Jan-20 19:59:05

Ode to Joy is top of the downloads chart. Today is getting better www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-downloads-chart/

Nezumi65 Fri 31-Jan-20 19:54:39

I quite liked my Lib Dem one.

Urmstongran Fri 31-Jan-20 19:53:34

More to the point, no one is going to be your MEP, ever again.
?

Nezumi65 Fri 31-Jan-20 19:49:28

I’ve most thought of a positive. Anne Widdecombe is no longer going to be my MEP. That’s worth a bottle of beer - cheers.

Callistemon Fri 31-Jan-20 19:43:24

Boris, as described by a child featured on the One Show:

"It looks like someone took his hair and threw it on top of his head".

At least I laughed
Before I burst into tears before 11pm

Labaik Fri 31-Jan-20 19:39:07

Hasn't he already had to backtrack on the end of austerity, border checks; Australian points immigration system; £30 [£35?] thousand minimum wage requirement etc. And we haven't even left yet....

paddyanne Fri 31-Jan-20 19:34:55

and if you believe a single thing that comes out of that mans mouth then you are just as deluded as he is .

Desdemona Fri 31-Jan-20 19:34:50

I feel a general sense of unease, which I have felt since a referendum was first suggested. I voted, but whether I voted rightly or wrongly I have no idea - I voted based on the information available to me at the time.

Urmstongran Fri 31-Jan-20 19:25:45

“The most important thing to say tonight is that this is not an end but a beginning. This is the moment when the dawn breaks and the curtain goes up on a new act. It is a moment of real national renewal and change.”

A taste of what Boris Johnson will tell the nation tonight in a video message to be released at 10pm GMT, an hour before the UK leaves the European Union.

Urmstongran Fri 31-Jan-20 19:19:59

3 hours 40 mins ?? ??‼️

JenniferEccles Fri 31-Jan-20 19:16:09

Did anyone believe even three months ago that this day would ever come?

Much to celebrate that’s for sure.

Opal Fri 31-Jan-20 18:59:43

Four hours to go and counting ..... grin