Why are leavers so angry

Graham_Devon

The very fact that this thread has been started surely shows the direction the vitriol is coming from?

steampowered

I think Brits just love to moan and complain. There seems to be a real culture of moaning and complaining about everything, especially politics, whether or not the complaint is justified.

Remainers are complaining because they lost the referendum. Brexiteers are complaining because, now that they won the referendum, they need something else to complain about.

I am sure the Brexiteer crowd will still be finding things to complain about long after we have left the EU. Much of the public seem to have an institutionalised "anti-establishment" feeling that won't go away any time soon.

armchaireconomist

Anger on both sides, although i'd argue it's moreso the "remainers" who seem be angry about the democracy of a democratic vote.


That said, the constant attempts to scupper the will of the majority and block Brexit is, I hope, fruitless. I wouldn't like to think what will happen should we end up still in the European Union post 2018.

Redknapps_Dog

armchaireconomist wrote: »

Anger on both sides, although i'd argue it's moreso the "remainers" who seem be angry about the democracy of a democratic vote.


That said, the constant attempts to scupper the will of the majority and block Brexit is, I hope, fruitless. I wouldn't like to think what will happen should we end up still in the European Union post 2018.

Farage would be doing precisely that if the result were the other way round, he made that very clear. We live in a democracy, and that gives everyone the right to moan and complain about election or referendum results.

Conrad

Redknapps_Dog wrote: »

Farage would be doing precisely that if the result were the other way round, he made that very clear.

Yes, VIA POLITICAL DISCOURSE, not via privileged ac cess to Europhile Judges and Courts


Parliament were 86% in favour of Remain, if they had won, there would be zero chance of another referendum for decades

mrginge

Herzlos wrote: »

I think youth complaining about a decision made by the elderly which won't actually affect said elderly is fair enough though. They feel (quite rightly) shafted.

I would like to know more about your belief that people with limited life expectancy should be prevented from having an opinion.

How should we structure general elections?

Should the terminally ill just be banned straight off?

Should we all have to go through a medical to determine if we were likely to see out the resulting parliament?

If a 'young' person dies does that mean we can knock their vote out or does this only apply to old people?

What is your age cut off for elderly?

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Conrad wrote: »

Yes, VIA POLITICAL DISCOURSE, not via privileged access to Europhile Judges and Courts

All the judges and courts can do is insist Parliament has a say in the process, that's exactly what you claimed to have been fighting for, the British parliament having control over things.

Except of course now that's inconvenient for you so those principles appear to have gone out the window....:cool:

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

mrginge wrote: »

I would like to know more about your belief that

I'd like to know more about your sides belief that democracy stops the moment you win a vote....

Should the public not have the right to change it's mind and vote on that change accordingly?

Redknapps_Dog

Conrad wrote: »

Yes, VIA POLITICAL DISCOURSE, not via privileged ac cess to Europhile Judges and Courts


Parliament were 86% in favour of Remain, if they had won, there would be zero chance of another referendum for decades

I'm not sure about your last sentence. You underestimate how effective Farage has been up to now. The judges decided to give more power to parliament, that a bad thing?

armchaireconomist

You can exercise your right to "moan and complain" about the result all you want. The fact of the matter is the majority voted to leave, and to block that is fundamentally undemocratic. The petulant and quite frankly childish reaction of some "remainers" post-referendum is simply fuelling the angst and uncertainty they're so opposed to.