Has anyone changed their mind about Brexit?

A_Medium_Size_Jock

tara747 wrote: »

Clearly you don't know the definition of 'ignorant' :rotfl: Anyway, I'd rather be ignorant than a whinging hysterical loon who holds a grudge for decades against the descendants of your ancestors' opponents.

Sapphire, given the provocation shown in the quote above your response is admirably moderate.

I wonder if that poster holds for example Remembrance Day in such little regard as her post suggests?

Moby

alfred64 wrote: »

This is the last thing we need:


Tony Blair is to announce his "mission" to persuade Britons' to "rise up" and change their minds on Brexit.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38996179

If you actually watch Blair's speech in detail I think any fair person would acknowledge it as the most coherent critique of what has happened and what is likely to happen in future. Also the question is not settled....everything is at stake in the negotiations. That referendum only decided the question of us leaving the EU for as long as the majority felt that way...........why can't things change again? I think it was a bad decision and so long as my means are democratic....campaigning to change the outcome or at least affect the nature of the outcome is completely reasonable. Blair set out in detail my views and I'm glad I'm on the side of an intelligent man instead of being on the side of an idiot like Paul Nuttall.....!

Moby

cogito wrote: »

He has absolutely no self awareness. If he had, he would realise that any intervention on his part would simply persuade more people that Brexit is the right thing for the country.

Which part of the country do you speak for ....not the Scottish or N Ireland part or the 48%. Don't get too carried away with the backing you have for what is an extremist position of hard brexit and out of the customs union....I doubt if many of the reasonable brexiteers would agree with the hard brexit!

gfplux

Coming back to the original question asked by the original poster.
I voted remain and was shocked and heart broken (yes) when the result was announced.
However +7 months on I have come to terms with the result and I except that Britain is leaving the EU.
ALL those who voted thought that the EU had effected their lives significantly in either a negative or a positive way. Leaving such an entity that has effected so many people in so many ways will not be a simple thing.
The job of leaving is in the hands of the British Government and I can only hope they will do a good job. Most on both sides of the argument have little concept how complicated it will be. I do worry that all the intellectual power and man/women hours, days, weeks and months being used on the Brexit planning and negotiations will leave many other important issues neglected.
I and others have often complained politicians never get anything done, well this time they might not get anything done BUT BREXIT.
I still believe leaving the EU is wrong and will make both Britain and the EU weaker, but the people have spoken and we have to live with it.

nkomp18

Looks like UK will need to pay £52 BILLION to exit the EU:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39042876

I am not sure if the Brexit people still think this is all going to go well for them... I would surprised if they still did

cogito

Or to be more accurate, Juncker suggested that the UK could have to pay up to £51bn. Not quite the same as what you said in your first sentence. I assume you did actually read the article before linking it.

mrginge

nkomp18 wrote: »

Looks like UK will need to pay £52 BILLION to exit the EU:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39042876

I am not sure if the Brexit people still think this is all going to go well for them... I would surprised if they still did

Oh no. What are we going to do???????

Cancel brexit now please.

gfplux

cogito wrote: »

Or to be more accurate, Juncker suggested that the UK could have to pay up to £51bn. Not quite the same as what you said in your first sentence. I assume you did actually read the article before linking it.

Obviously there will have to be a financial reckoning. Britain has probably entered into contracts to fund various things and this will have to be settled during the negotiations.
All this talk from both sides is just hot air but we all should recognise that something that effected both sides (Brexiteers and Remainers) of the argument in their daily lives for over 40 years will not be a simple thing to unravel.

chris_m

gfplux wrote: »

Obviously there will have to be a financial reckoning. Britain has probably entered into contracts to fund various things and this will have to be settled during the negotiations.

It's old news, from several weeks ago IIRC - these sums are indeed for things that we have already contracted to pay, nothing to do with any "exit fee".

padington

chris_m wrote: »

It's old news, from several weeks ago IIRC - these sums are indeed for things that we have already contracted to pay, nothing to do with any "exit fee".

It's never nice signing up for a mobile phone, only to lose it then to have to pay the monthly bill for years and get nothing for it.

Funny because I thought we were told changing contracts was going to save hundreds of millions of pounds a year.

Ho hum.