Still told to 'get over it, it's done.

RosieandherMaw

Well if nothing else we have enjoyed a few hours without this topic! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yeah, nice wasn’t it?😄

But we are excluded from the 150 billion EU defence fund.

Endless ranting? Well, first of all, this comment is massively rude, but never mind.

Many of us are still trying to fight the worst effects of Brexit, one way or another. Not about the past, but about the future, and to improve conditions, and reverse the tragic effects, one way or another. It means a lot to me, and a huge proportion of the population, increasing by the day. Both via simple demographics, and also because the negative effects are getting clearer by the day, and people want to go forwards without the shackles of Brexit.

You don't care? Then just scroll by.

The U.K. PM is leading the coalition of the willing

We haven’t left Europe, we left a trade block called the EU.

Claremont, people may think Brexit has no influence on our lives but what good does your endless ranting about it do?
What have you achieved by that?

Well if nothing else we have enjoyed a few hours without this topic! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I get what you mean, but people must have their reasons, probably all different, for not disclosing, because it happens frequently. It doesn’t bother me, because we probably all know who the people with distinctive styles are anyway, I’m happy to let it be.

Casdon

That seems a bit unfair RosieandherMaw. Why should just one person have to do that? There are lots of posters on here who haven’t chosen to disclose their former user names (I don’t mean you, as I know you have), and they post in the same style they always have, so surely it’s the same rule for all? Although we may know their previous user names, I don’t think anybody should have to say who they were before unless they choose to.

Depends on the reasons.
I have always been totally transparent - as in my case it has been because one cannot return with the identical username- adding “2” or a synonym usually does it.
But there have also been those who have chosen to disguise their former persona for whatever reason. Sadly for them their writing style often gives them away!
Of course I am not suggesting anything of the sort here but given OP’s vehement condemnation of Brexit over the past 9 years, I just wondered why.

Indeed.

That seems a bit unfair RosieandherMaw. Why should just one person have to do that? There are lots of posters on here who haven’t chosen to disclose their former user names (I don’t mean you, as I know you have), and they post in the same style they always have, so surely it’s the same rule for all? Although we may know their previous user names, I don’t think anybody should have to say who they were before unless they choose to.

MaizieD

^It really isn’t all doom and gloom here in the U.K. , despite what you continue to post…^

I really don't know how you can say that with a straight face, GG13. You must be well insulated against the dire state of the UK...

Is that due to Brexit?

Or due to many other factors?

Of course I am still posting about it- because all the issues we warned about are still there, and getting worse rather than better. If everything had settled down, and the massive damage just gone away- of course I wouldn't. It hasn't, so I will keep going. And you can just ignore, scroll past. Just as you please
So given that Claremont is a relatively new username, in the interests of transparency and to put your comments in context, are you prepared to say which username (s) you were using heretofore? .

My neighbours still spend many months of the year in Spain, exactly as they did before Brexit. So one has to fill in some forms - is that the end of the earth? There are many other countries which people from the UK either visit or work in, and, shock horror, they too have to fill in some forms. The earth is still turning.

MaizieD

^It really isn’t all doom and gloom here in the U.K. , despite what you continue to post…^

I really don't know how you can say that with a straight face, GG13. You must be well insulated against the dire state of the UK...

We have family in Spain, Sweden, Denmark and Australia, all of which have similar issues to UK.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
I wouldn’t say that young people didn’t /don’t care, but there is the incontrovertible fact that we don’t know whether or not they will bother to vote, if the matter ever arises again.

Since we are regularly told that older people were responsible for the Leave vote winning, that implies that the lack of remain votes (over 1,000,000 of them) was due to younger people not bothering to vote.

It really isn’t all doom and gloom here in the U.K. , despite what you continue to post…

I really don't know how you can say that with a straight face, GG13. You must be well insulated against the dire state of the UK...

YouGov poll from January of this year, 2025

among the youngest Britons, who were unable to vote in the 2016 referendum, there is little belief that the referendum went the right way. Three-quarters of 18-24 year olds (75%) say that Britain was wrong to vote to leave the EU, against just one in ten (10%) who say the UK made the right choice.

yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/51484-how-do-britons-feel-about-brexit-five-years-on

(there's a link to the full results on the report page)

Young people may not talk about Brexit, but they clearly don't agree with it.

Of course it's not a current topic of discussion, we have to live with what we have. But claiming that young people don't care is clearly untrue.

Polling may not be perfect, but a well conducted poll is probably the best indication we have of how people are thinking. It's better than anecdotes.

Claremont it may be more problematic (i.e. red tape) but it is not impossible for British citizens to work in Europe.

I know of many who are working the ski season and a fair few more who have got positions lined up for the summer season.

It really isn’t all doom and gloom here in the U.K. , despite what you continue to post…

prerogative, oops.

Norah

GrannyGravy13

All five of our AC and their partners voted leave, they have no regrets.

They still have fabulous lives, still travel (in Europe and further afield).

In actual fact none of them give leaving the EU a second thought.

Our 4 voted remain. As did our entire larger family.

They all love their lives, work, travel - don't care at all about Brexit.

And that is very much their prorogative, however surprising my GCs and their friends would find it.

I was talking about the ability to work in Europe, and to travel in Europe, not for 1 week or 2 on hols- but to truly experience life there. Before we joined EU and after Brexit- this has become very complicated as work place and permit all have to be sorted out beforehand. And almost impossible for all those who wanted to spend 1 year of more working seasons working in ski resorts or summer resorts, teaching and practising sport, working in bars, clubs, hotels, etc, learning a new language, experiencing a different culture, making friends and ties, etc.

Of course I am still posting about it- because all the issues we warned about are still there, and getting worse rather than better. If everything had settled down, and the massive damage just gone away- of course I wouldn't. It hasn't, so I will keep going. And you can just ignore, scroll past. Just as you please.

www.statista.com/statistics/1393682/brexit-opinion-poll-by-age/

That's the issue really. Young people don't give brexit a second thought. It is meaningless to them.

They are living their lives. Not sat on forums demanding to be told what benefits we've gained from leaving the EU.

It's history.

Folk are certainly at liberty to constantly talk about it, but others are also at liberty to have got over it

Mollygo

It’s really funny to have read the 😱 and don't people understand what a referendum means , on GN when there was talk of a further referendum for Scotland’s independence then to read expectations of a further referendum for rejoining the EU.
Probably there is also a belief among some, that the UK would be welcomed back on terms favourable to the UK, despite the fact that unfavourable terms were one reason for BREXIT.

Who is it that you think believes that Mollygo?

Those horrible messages about needing medical help with depression, etc, and being so boring and obsessed

If you have had messages (PMs) on these matters do report them to HQ. I can’t say I’ve seen anything on this thread of that ilk.
However anybody suspecting “obsession” might be able to quote the number of threads and posts over the years which might lead to a similar conclusion.

(And you have been posting in this vein over the years, haven’t you?)

GrannyGravy13

All five of our AC and their partners voted leave, they have no regrets.

They still have fabulous lives, still travel (in Europe and further afield).

In actual fact none of them give leaving the EU a second thought.

Our 4 voted remain. As did our entire larger family.

They all love their lives, work, travel - don't care at all about Brexit.