Brexit

What's next?

Theresa May's Deal
8
17%
No deal
13
28%
People's vote
22
48%
Something else (pls specify)
3
7%
 
Total votes: 46
barcode
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The people that voted out, don't see any of that nor do there care. To them it's just elite people swamming around the EU, and are getting all the benefits. To the leave people this is just a pipe dream which will never happen to them. The leave people are not seeing any real benefits to being in the EU.

Maybe if we started to tackle the issues why people feel left behide instead of insults and saying their stupid we might actually move forward, Mind you the USA is facing the same troubles.

It's a race to the bottom now.....
Alexia
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It's not even about any of the arguments any more. They've all been proven to be bunk. We already have sovereignty, we have border control, we could even have had blue passports if we wanted....we had a say in EU law and can change it to our advantage if we want. The EU quotas are saving the fishing industry in this country from dying an even more rapid death than it already is. EU immigrants are not taking jobs in front of UK nationals and are not sponging off the state; rather they provide a net benefit to this country financially and socially. We are not under any pressure to join the Euro. All our public services rely on migrant labour to an extent and we are not sending £350m a week to the EU without getting some or most of it back. The EU invests in the areas the UK govt neglects and for all this we get the ability to piss off to Spain or Greece on holiday whenever we want and take our NHS health cover with us. All the little Englanders who are afraid of an EU-wide army should realise that cross-border co-operation has been going on for decades, not least of all in the aviation industry, and that future wars won't be waged by the sort of armies we seem intent on relying on in this country. Certainly all public appetite for troop warfare is at an all time low.

What it *is* about now is that there is a tranche of Brexiteers who cannot stand the fact that they were lied to, duped, led on, and are in the wrong tribe, on the wrong team, on the wrong side of history, and are desperately trying to absolve themselves of any blame even if it means plunging this country into the 1950s.

It's sick.
Alexia
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barcode wrote: Wed 21 Nov, 2018 23.20 The people that voted out, don't see any of that nor do there care. To them it's just elite people swamming around the EU, and are getting all the benefits. To the leave people this is just a pipe dream which will never happen to them. The leave people are not seeing any real benefits to being in the EU.

More like the "working class" in this country who have never left their home town are envious and resentful of the poor buggers with too many Zs in their name who actually got up off their arses and left their homes and countries to move somewhere else, learn a foreign language, set up a life for themselves and prospered by doing something as relatively simple as carpentry, plumbing, electricals or building.
barcode
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See there the problem... Blame the voters not the causes or issues, and you wonder why there is so much blood over this topic...

FYI every one is given a second language to do fo over 30 years nows.. Mind you maybe it would help if their let the kids decide second one should be instead of telling the kids what to learn..
james2001
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Alexia wrote: Wed 21 Nov, 2018 23.24 It's not even about any of the arguments any more. They've all been proven to be bunk. We already have sovereignty, we have border control, we could even have had blue passports if we wanted....we had a say in EU law and can change it to our advantage if we want. The EU quotas are saving the fishing industry in this country from dying an even more rapid death than it already is. EU immigrants are not taking jobs in front of UK nationals and are not sponging off the state; rather they provide a net benefit to this country financially and socially. We are not under any pressure to join the Euro. All our public services rely on migrant labour to an extent and we are not sending £350m a week to the EU without getting some or most of it back. The EU invests in the areas the UK govt neglects and for all this we get the ability to piss off to Spain or Greece on holiday whenever we want and take our NHS health cover with us. All the little Englanders who are afraid of an EU-wide army should realise that cross-border co-operation has been going on for decades, not least of all in the aviation industry, and that future wars won't be waged by the sort of armies we seem intent on relying on in this country. Certainly all public appetite for troop warfare is at an all time low.

What it *is* about now is that there is a tranche of Brexiteers who cannot stand the fact that they were lied to, duped, led on, and are in the wrong tribe, on the wrong team, on the wrong side of history, and are desperately trying to absolve themselves of any blame even if it means plunging this country into the 1950s.

It's sick.
I really don't think I could put it any better!
all new Phil
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Location: Next door to Hell

james2001 wrote: Wed 21 Nov, 2018 22.45 Theres going to be a hell of a lot more than 16 jobs lost as a result of brexit, which I'm sure you know. I'm sure you're alright, jack, though. As long as you've still got your job and your blue passport, who cares about other people, eh? Maybe you need to remember that real people are being affected by this, and affected badly, and unsympathetically sneering about it doesn't make you look good.
Of course I understand that real people are affected by this. I was merely pushing the buttons that I know from previous comments of yours will provoke a reaction and, right on cue, there you are with the “alright jack”, “blue passports” and accusations of sneering. Your views on brexiteers far predate your sisters very unfortunate circumstances.

What you perfectly demonstrate is that there is such a divide between both sides of this, and an unwillingness from so many to refer to those with opposing views to their own without being disrespectful.
woah
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A little off-topic - but I do find it depressing the way that the public feels increasingly divided, not just about Brexit but politics in general.

For example - we have increasing numbers of extremist idiots from either side of an argument on social media, who pounce on the slightest news and use it to support their agenda by spouting heavily biased, often inaccurate nonsense. The more this happens the more it's considered "acceptable" and I find people tend to be much more vocal and open about these kinds of extreme, unsubstantiated views than they ever have been.

Certain parts of the media make this worse by writing one-sided, biased articles missing key pieces of detail to fan the flames and get the clicks they need - and so it spreads further. Certain politicians know how to get the support from these extremist types and so they get increasingly more attention through that as well.

I personally find it very hard to work out the facts and realities among the noise of debates, campaigning, biased media, and social media.

And to me, this is what happened with Brexit - we were asked to vote on whether we should leave the EU or not, but the campaign groups told us many possibilities that were never a guaranteed result of leaving the EU. Brexit meant so many different things to different people (immigration, fisheries, taking back control of our laws for example) but that is not what we voted for - we voted to leave, not on what "leaving" would ultimately mean.

The vote was far too simplistic - the ultimate end goal of leaving the EU should have been crystal clear from the outset, and if that turned out not to be possible another vote should have been carried out until we reached terms that the public had a majority support for. I don't think a people's vote is practical now - and would probably end in protests or riots - but I do thing the Brexit campaigning was shameful and misleading, and you do have to wonder how many people would vote to remain, or for a Brexit on entirely different terms, having seen what has happened over the last 2 years.

Finally - it feels impossible to have a reasoned debate between people on both sides of the Brexit debate without creating an argument - not even here on Metropol. I find it a real shame but I think it is the reality when we have such a huge divide.
all new Phil
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woah wrote: Wed 21 Nov, 2018 23.39 A little off-topic - but I do find it depressing the way that the public feels increasingly divided, not just about Brexit but politics in general.

For example - we have increasing numbers of extremist idiots from either side of an argument on social media, who pounce on the slightest news and use it to support their agenda by spouting heavily biased, often inaccurate nonsense. The more this happens the more it's considered "acceptable" and I find people tend to be much more vocal and open about these kinds of extreme, unsubstantiated views than they ever have been.

Certain parts of the media make this worse by writing one-sided, biased articles missing key pieces of detail to fan the flames and get the clicks they need - and so it spreads further. Certain politicians know how to get the support from these extremist types and so they get increasingly more attention through that as well.

I personally find it very hard to work out the facts and realities among the noise of debates, campaigning, biased media, and social media.

And to me, this is what happened with Brexit - we were asked to vote on whether we should leave the EU or not, but the campaign groups told us many possibilities that were never a guaranteed result of leaving the EU. Brexit meant so many different things to different people (immigration, fisheries, taking back control of our laws for example) but that is not what we voted for - we voted to leave, not on what "leaving" would ultimately mean.

The vote was far too simplistic - the ultimate end goal of leaving the EU should have been crystal clear from the outset, and if that turned out not to be possible another vote should have been carried out until we reached terms that the public had a majority support for. I don't think a people's vote is practical now - and would probably end in protests or riots - but I do thing the Brexit campaigning was shameful and misleading, and you do have to wonder how many people would vote to remain, or for a Brexit on entirely different terms, having seen what has happened over the last 2 years.

Finally - it feels impossible to have a reasoned debate between people on both sides of the Brexit debate without creating an argument - not even here on Metropol. I find it a real shame but I think it is the reality when we have such a huge divide.
Nail on the head. Great post.
barcode
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At some people do speak sense.
bilky asko
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james2001 wrote: Wed 21 Nov, 2018 22.45 Theres going to be a hell of a lot more than 16 jobs lost as a result of brexit, which I'm sure you know. I'm sure you're alright, jack, though. As long as you've still got your job and your blue passport, who cares about other people, eh? Maybe you need to remember that real people are being affected by this, and affected badly, and unsympathetically sneering about it doesn't make you look good.
Speaking of EU funding, the last thing I saw which advertised it was one of the Work Programme providers.
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Alexia
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barcode wrote: Wed 21 Nov, 2018 23.29 See there the problem... Blame the voters not the causes or issues, and you wonder why there is so much blood over this topic...

FYI every one is given a second language to do fo over 30 years nows.. Mind you maybe it would help if their let the kids decide second one should be instead of telling the kids what to learn..
The voters *are* to blame. They're the ones who allowed Farage and Galloway and Hoey and BoJo and Gove to exacerbate their worst fears, play their prejudices like a violin and who believed everything that confirmed their biases at face value without doing any research. Earlier you asserted that people voted to leave the EU because they felt they weren't getting any benefit from being in the EU. Yet these are the same deferential folk who gain absolutely no benefit from there being a royal family yet are firmly royalist. They're the same people who think that there should be a death penalty yet scream blue murder when anyone dares threaten their "yuman rites". A large tranche of the voters are just plain and wilfuly ignorant of how society at large affects them.

Also, if being in the EU really doesn't effect them, then why do they get any say on the matter? I don't drive, so I don't go around telling people what tyres they should have on their cars or what air freshener they use.

Finally about the languages issue - there is choice - I had a choice of Welsh, French, German, Spanish or Latin at GCSE. Of course, it would be good if some of the native population could master English first but we can't have everything.
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