Now that we are leaving the EU...

Urm I have low blood pressure, I am expressing the frustration of many that a fraudulent, corrupt, advisory referendum has led us down this path. I will never accept the result, I hope some of you who voted for it suffer along with the rest of us.

www.facebook.com/watch/?v=158468305599289

Boris and Trump, god help us, the future.

Germany and Germans may be heartbroken and grieving at the UK no longer being a nett contributor to the EU budget, obviously worried that they and France will have to dig deep to make up the defici.

There was a post on twitter bemoaning the fact that they were no longer a "European", the U.K. Is leaving the EU, it is not being towed into the middle of the Atlantic. We are still part of the continent of Europe.

Oh varian; you are so funny.

Hear the sanity and the sadness of EU leaders.

youtu.be/_jFEPtaZECE

Heartbroken! Losing a member of her family! Dear oh dear.

Hearts mend Varian .....time the great healer etc.

I have just been speaking to a German lady I met on holiday. She says she is heartbroken that the UK is leaving the EU. She said she felt she was losing a member of her family. I told her that we, indeed most British people, do not want to leave and many of us are heartbroken that such a thing could ever have happened.

I am definitely not smug!!

The UK has now got 11 months of negotiations, I cannot see the point of getting so "het-up" about things which are yet to happen or may not happen.

You sound het up and overwound anniezzz. Try to keep a sense of perspective. It’ll help your blood pressure if nothing else!

I’m not ‘smug’ by the way. Stop projecting stereotypes. It doesn’t help the situation using such hyperbolic language. What are you trying to achieve here? More division?

Let’s try to be kinder to each other going forward. It would be a good start.

Oooooh varian

Fighting talk

What are you going to do to these people?

I suspect there will be attempts to find 'newsworthy' stories to distract us from the important issues such as how negotiations are progressing. How well informed will we be? How much will be hidden?

I also wonder how long Boris Johnson's ”I got Brexit done”exuberance will last. We are told he is not a man interested in details. What will follow as from tomorrow is of course exactly that, i.e. details and the nitty-gritty. Not sure if that is his cup of tea.

Urmstongran.

And when it turns out that leaving was the best thing for the country, will any of those 17 million be thanked for the decision they took?

Absolutely Varian. And this thread perfectly explains why the rift that has been created will never be healed and however bad it gets the smug Leavers will deny it all, deny the racism, deny the loss of standards, deny the growth of authoritarian government, fascism, falling standards of living partly because they are part of the 'I'm all right Jack and I'm busy feathering my own nest' brigade and I can't say the rest because they'll run to Mummy GN and complain but they know the rest.

varian I’ve got to love your persistence. And you full well know that some of those 50 million were not eligible to vote. Nice try though!

The 50 million UK residents who never voted leave in the fraudulent referendum of 2016 have every right to hold the 17 million who did and the liars who fooled them to account from now on.

And we will.

anniezzz09
Now that I can't wait to see

Don’t worry Greta I’m sure they will continue with the EU bashing - everything that goes wrong, shuts down, funding pulled etc etc will undoubtedly still be the fault of the EU and not our useless government.

Apparently Tony Blair says the attitude of Remainers should now be "to strive to make the best of it [and] to approach it with determined optimism, not looking over our shoulders in unrequited longing for what was".

He adds: "No one in the country is going to thank us or think more of us if we behave churlishly in defeat and frankly the challenge of making Brexit work is sufficiently important for our nation, that we cannot afford to be absent from it.

"Britain is a great country. At our best, we are a great people. Our history shows us what our future can be. Time to embrace it."

Good grief I actually agree with Tony Blair! In my view this is what remainers should have been doing from the point of the referendum result, rather than looking for ways to overturn that result, but we are where we are. Better late than never. As Mr Blair says, time to move forward in a spirit of determined optimism and embrace Brexit.

I think you'll find that there's queue of nations waiting to join!

MerylStreep, yes, people forget it's not just an 'us and them' situation. Who will be next to leave?

Very well said namsnanny - a voice of reason.
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If you watch 'Travels in euroland' with Ed Balls, you'll see that there is a lot of anti-eu feeling in all the member counties.

namsnanny spot on with your posts??
Yes, this thread is another excuse for grumbles and fomenting strife about leaving the EU.

Oh the gutter press and the government will go on blaming the EU for years to come while busily siphoning off money into the pockets of the rich and lowering standards on every front. The French have just banned all pesticides which harm bees I saw the other day while we look forward to eggs from battery hens and chlorinated chicken!

Oh well, come 11pm we will be the foreigners