Dear Brexiteer,
I feel like I am over-glamourising you here. You sound bit like a Musketeer. You’re not. Obviously. But Brexiter, like Brexit, is so ugly…
How are you feeling today dude? Pretty happy I guess, as there is much to celebrate…oh wait.
The pound and FTSE have tanked. Did you get your holiday currency out before you placed your vote? You little scamp you. I’m sure all the small businesses in this country, and those who have effectively seen their wages just halve, will be most relieved.
Oh and now we can negotiate freely and PROPERLY with Europe to make sure we get our own way. Yep negotiating is much easier from the outside and I’m sure that they can’t wait to have a chat. They have NO REASON AT ALL to want to crush us economically now. They won’t think it’s a great idea not to give in to our demands and make an example of us as a warning to the French. So that’s ok too. (Oh, by the way, Marie Le Pen is delighted for us, WEHEY. Nothing like pleasing the far right eh?)
Oh and didn’t it just make you smile to hear a member of the Great British public congratulating a sickeningly smug looking Farage on changing the face of Europe. Farage. You helped Farage change the face of Europe. Oh and the fact that £350 million he promised for the NHS isn’t actually there, never mind. Don’t sweat it dude. You didn’t just privatise the NHS on your own, you had plenty of help. A responsibility shared and all that. No reason to lose any sleep.
Ooh, ooh and we get to elect a new prime minister, that’s always fun. Oh no wait, 150 000 tories will get to elect a new prime minister. How terribly fair.
Now Scotland are delighted that you handed them the chance to finally leave Britain for good. It’s pretty cold in Scotland, am sure it won’t matter so please, don’t let it worry you.
Oh and the Irish. Isn’t it JUST BRILLIANT that you can now get your passport stamped every time you cross between North and South. I love a good passport stamp. And the fact that they are only just coming out of one of the most horrible recessions and political tensions were already running high…this is bound to help.
And the Brexiteer baby boomer, an extra special thanks to you. Really. Having enjoyed a lifetime of free university education, free health care, the ability to move freely and visit wonderful historical sites, to choose where you wish to live and to holiday cheaply you have decided this should not be available to the younger generation. I bet your grandchildren will be round to thank you really soon. They are never going to ask you to explain why you have worsened their entire future…that would be rude. Oh and the 16 year olds who, despite paying their taxes and being most affected by your decision, weren’t allowed to vote. Did you consider them at all? Oh good.
Oh, and it doesn’t matter that none of the three VOTE LEAVE leaders weren’t accepting any questions today. They’re bound to have a plan. You wouldn’t have voted for NO plan. I’m sure they will tell us all about it really soon. Really. Soon. Probably just keeping us in suspense for fun eh?
So Brexiteer, I wish you well.
Great day.
Great Britain.
No, I’m not cross at all.
Yes they’ve got a lot to answer for that’s for sure. Still I am sure they will sleep much better tonight, let’s see if that is still the case in 12 months time.
Indeed!
Round of applause to you, madam. I haven’t stopped shaking my god damn head all day.
I just want to go to bed and pretend it didn’t happen. Meant to be on a rare date night with the husband tonight. Not sure its a great idea. Am likely to get myself thumped.
You’ve posted this 12 hours after the result was announced. Project fear has well and truly worked on you. Instead of a hysterical rant such a short amount of time after the poll, why not wait a few months, or even a year, to give a more measured response?
We are lucky enough to live in one of the world’s oldest, most respected and least corrupt democracies. The people have spoken,the result is not to your liking, so why is this a reason for you to direct abuse at people who made a democratic choice just because their opinion differs from yours?
Remember the motto that was bandied around by the remain camp after the death of Jo Cox, or have you forgotten that already? Hope, not hate. That statement was used by remain to attack the leave camps strategy. Now all I have seen today is a seemingly never-ending stream of hate from sore losers from remain. I have seen people’s intelligence questioned in the rudest of ways, accusations of racism and worse.
Why direct this hatred at people who bothered to vote? What about the people who didn’t vote? The ones the remain camp obviously did not do enough to entice to the polling booth?
David Cameron went to the EU to negotiate a better deal for Britain. They offered him virtually nothing, safe in their blinkered belief that the UK would never dare leave their sacred union. A game of blink first by Juncker, a man whose job it is to maintain unity in the EU, basically snubbing his nose at one of its biggest contributors. Well we all know that the British public does not like being bullied, so out we go, closely followed by Sweden and Netherlands next, with France queueing up behind them. The EU is dying a slow death. It has already brought Greece to its knees, did you forget about that? 40% youth unemployment in Spain, the same amount in my own county here in the UK, what is the EU doing about that? Absolutely nothing. Read the Five Presidents Act, which would have been put into force shortly after a remain win. See how you would feel about that. Also, did you think we never had recessions under the EU? We had a pretty big one just a few years ago if you remember, and several prior to that. The EU will implode within 10 years. Where will the UK be? Where it’s always been, a strong, proud nation. Be proud of your country and have hope in what it can do.
Oh and the FTSE and pound are recovering, as expected, after the initial fall, also expected.
It will take over 2 years to fully exit the EU, by which time we will be fully prepared to hold our own on the main stage. Politics is about the bigger picture, not some hysteria whipped up by the media and spin doctors. Try reading behind the sound bites.
Although I cannot agree with you in anyway I fully respect your right to vote and opinion. Thank you for commenting Alana.
I also think project fear was a very fitting name, on this we agree. I am absolutely terrified.
Thank you for not shooting me down, it was much appreciated. All I will say is, we have no experience of leaving the EU before, so nobody can say for sure what will happen. All we have to go on is what ‘experts’ say, and as we have all seen from the opinion polls at the referendum and the last General election, experts can and do get things wrong. Leaving the EU is unprecedented, the claims from both sides, are exactly that. Claims, speculation. Yes there is doubt, yes there is fear, but the fact they kept banging on about us being the 5th largest economy in the world must stand us in good stead. Britain is one of, if not the most highly respected countries in the world, our culture’s, our history, our manufacturing, our people. The world will not turn it’s back on us, they will still want to travel here, spend money here, so what if they need a visa to do that? Wouldn’t put me off going to a country. This is such a great place to live, I love the UK and am proud to be British, I would never run my country down, nor the percentage of an electorate who don’t share the same views as me. Your post is divisive and I thought that the legacy of this tragic campaign was to try and eradicate this, yet all I have seen today is bilious rants against a large proportion of our population, using arguments that have no real basis or precedent. Pessimism is such a cancer. If they sky hasn’t fallen in on us by this time next year (and I don’t hear any WWIII tanks on the horizon yet either!) I’m sure we will be fine. This is a bloody great country, let’s have some faith in it.
Honestly Alana I hope that you are right. I really do. I just cannot see it though. I can see Scotland leaving and rejoining the EU. SO MANY businesses based in England will relocate there. It’s not difficult. I am truly very scared for Ireland. My family are all from Ireland and ‘the troubles’ are still pretty fresh in their minds. All I can see there is an instigation to violence. I hope I’m wrong and again, thank you for commenting. All opinions always welcome.
Hi Alana,
I was just revisiting this post and wondered how you are feeling about it all now? I’m still sad the vote went the way it did but you are right, the sky has not yet fallen in! Yet, we still haven’t Brexited. My fury has paled, my sadness remains. How about you?
Hope you are well x
Am sad and cross and floored by this result. Can’t get beyond dreading right now. What a mess 😢
Swearing not dreading!!
Have wavered somewhere between grief and fury all day.
I still can’t believe that Leave won.
Mental.
Honestly I am seven shades of fury and seven shades of grief. It’s like the GE all over again but crossed with the end of the Olympics.
FABULOUS post! I’m particularly loving all those who are now doing their own U-turns and saying ‘uh well it was just a protest vote, I didn’t actually expect it to happen’. And Farage admitting the NHS claim was rubbish? Brilliant. We’re all looking forward to a privatised NHS. Unbelievable.
The LEAVE voters who are saying “we didn’t think it would happen.” WHAT DID they think would happen? Unbelievable.