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Now that we are leaving the EU...

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Greta Thu 30-Jan-20 14:35:51

What will our anti-EU media now spread lies/fake news about? Some posters have commented that it has been very quiet on the Brexit front of late. What will replace the ”blame the EU” stance for all our ills?

Jabberwok Fri 31-Jan-20 20:33:16

No, Churchill did not want a united states of Euope. 'With Europe but not of it'! Which is what we would all want!

Grammaretto Fri 31-Jan-20 20:21:13

I am really not hoping it will fail Urmstongran but that doesn't stop me feeling very sad that we are throwing away everything we have striven so hard to achieve over nearly 50 years.

Churchill was the first to want to create a United States of Europe, incidentally.

It, the EU, was getting too unwieldy its true, but surely we could have reformed the beast. But to throw our membership away in favour of USA and Chinese trade as the result of a token referendum, is a crying shame and makes me very sad.

Now Nicola is banging on about Indy Scotland and who's' next?.

The farmers are terrified they will lose their subsidies and we should all be terrified that the price of food and everything else will rise. Farmers (you know those people who grow our food) commit suicide at the rate of one per week.

I shall be celebrating the achievements of the past 47 years but not leaving the EU.

Ilovecheese Fri 31-Jan-20 19:53:15

I think you are correct Yennifer

Yennifer Fri 31-Jan-20 19:50:50

I am sure we will still have plenty of resident minorities for people to blame x

Labaik Fri 31-Jan-20 19:42:03

'IIf you don't like it here, feel free to move elsewhere, I doubt your constant moaning and negativity will be missed'
...I am so sick of hearing that comment from leave voters. You don't own love of country and patriotism you know. .

eazybee Fri 31-Jan-20 19:01:40

Fraudulent sham corrupted politics is not something we should have to accept.

So true.
Thank goodness we have a proper government at last.

Hetty58 Fri 31-Jan-20 18:44:27

Surely, we need to be vigilant? We are lucky to live in the UK, of course, but we need to be mindful of the ever more transparent corruption, bias and plain incompetence of our government. They need to be called to account!

Opal Fri 31-Jan-20 18:39:59

Well there are millions of us who are still very happy and proud to be citizens of the UK. I can't think of anywhere I'd rather live, and we are all damned lucky to live in such a wonderful country. If you don't like it here, feel free to move elsewhere, I doubt your constant moaning and negativity will be missed.

MaizieD Fri 31-Jan-20 18:36:23

Everything is corrupt and fraudulant varian and the sooner you get used to it the better, then we can all stop hearing about it

Really, Chestnut??

So that's a positive benefit of Brexit is it? Everything is corrupt and fraudulent and that's our future?

Well, it disgusts me.

And I, and no doubt varian and others , will continue to point out every bit of the corrupt nastiness that pervades the country I once was very happy to be a citizen of.

MaizieD Fri 31-Jan-20 18:30:50

I give up

Thank goodness.

varian Fri 31-Jan-20 18:29:10

Fraudulent sham corrupted politics is not something we should have to accept.

Urmstongran Fri 31-Jan-20 18:28:19

“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.

varian Fri 31-Jan-20 18:27:35

Believe it or not there are some countries which are democratic and their populations appreciate their own national politics and value their EU membership- e.g. The Netherlands, Sweden, Finland.

Urmstongran Fri 31-Jan-20 18:21:01

There’s no pleasing some people is there? I give up.
?

Chestnut Fri 31-Jan-20 18:20:03

Everything is corrupt and fraudulant varian and the sooner you get used to it the better, then we can all stop hearing about it ?

varian Fri 31-Jan-20 18:17:41

Johnson got a minority of votes it a 'stonking majority' of MPs because of our corrupt undemocratic FPTP voting system. This is a sham democracy.

Urmstongran Fri 31-Jan-20 17:47:32

It’s sad. I even wonder if those who didn’t vote to leave the E.U. are actually secretly hoping the U.K. fails!

And although you won’t accept the result of the referendum annezzz perhaps you WILL accept that Boris got a stonking majority to ‘Get Brexit Done’. The GE wasn’t advisory nor corrupt.

I hope neither you nor I suffer from any consequences going forward. Why should we? We will all adapt to any change. The sky isn’t about to fall in.

yggdrasil Fri 31-Jan-20 17:13:32

It has already started. It is all the Remainers fault apparently.

Nezumi65 Fri 31-Jan-20 16:56:33

How on earth do people who voted remain have a way to ‘derail’ Brexit? If only we were that powerful. What a load of nonsense.

Chestnut Fri 31-Jan-20 16:29:49

Wow! I'm also amazed to find Tony Blair talking sense for once! Well spotted Urmstongran.
Unfortunately the remainers on here won't listen to those wise words. They have kept their ears and eyes closed for the last four years except for what they want to hear. ? They will keep looking for ways to derail Brexit just so they can say 'I told you so' which is really not going to help anyone.

MaizieD Fri 31-Jan-20 16:17:33

before the leavers get so smug that everything is going to be great.

I just do not understand how they can be so absolutely certain about this. We've been continually told by them over the past 3 years that no-one can foretell the future.

And, they've never managed to tell us how leaving the EU is going to make everything great.

growstuff Fri 31-Jan-20 15:21:59

I won't Barmeyoldbat. I intend to let them get on with it.

growstuff Fri 31-Jan-20 15:10:03

www.dw.com/en/brexit-day-uk-leaves-the-european-union-live-updates/a-52211460

Barmeyoldbat Fri 31-Jan-20 15:09:02

Lets see where we are this time next year before the leavers get so smug that everything is going to be great. The we us 17 million who voted to remain will say told you so.

growstuff Fri 31-Jan-20 15:08:10

The German media doesn't appear to be grieving.