The ‘sore loser’, you lost get over it type retort from Leavers also really grates my gears Joey.
As my view on Brexit has always been that it’s not in the best interests of the country and the seemingly intangible ‘benefits’ of regaining Sovereignty and being ‘masters of our our destiny’, don’t hold up to any real scrutiny imo.
So I’ve always been pro remain as a result.
However, the result was the result and to deliver the result of the referendum we had to leave the EU, my view on that has always been that we do that in such a way that is the least damaging to our economy. As ultimately these supposed benefits matter little if in chasing them, we dramatically reduce our GDP, and thus with it our treasury’s purse, and thus the fiscal benefit of leaving i.e. the gain back of our membership fee, is completely dwarfed by a loss of tax revenue due to a crashed economy.
In recent months I’ve become completely exacerbated by the downright lies and untruths that have been peddled about the reality of what a ‘no deal’ Brexit would deliver. I’ve spent hours and hours researching the numerous areas of impact that a no deal scenario would bring with it. Read reams of information form numerous sources (business, trade experts, trade bodies, etc etc) about how walking away with nothing, and thus facing the ‘cliff edge’ of all or our trade and regulatory agreements ending on the 29th March, would be literally catastrophic and would impinge on virtually every aspect of our day to day lives, until the literally hundreds of agreements were sorted in what would be a crisis setting.
Having that knowledge and then hearing idiots (and I make no excuse for using that word) like Nadine Dorres, Priti Patel, Davis and Johnson, spouting ill informed nonsense about how all of the experts and business people speaking about all of the very real consequences of that outcome, as being merely ‘project fear MKII’, absolutely winds me off the clock. As then people like you, take their words and parrot them, as if they have some actual validity or basis in fact. When they simply don’t and they’re merely trying to act like Tory Comical Ali’s ffs.
Brexit in whatever form it takes will impact on me financially, with no deal being by far the worst outcome. However, I’m fortunate, I’m cushioned financially from that hit, and whilst I wouldn’t choose it, it won’t change my life. However, that can’t be necessarily said for some of the people who work for me, those in unskilled roles who are already feeling the pinch, which rising inflation has made worse. If the economy takes a bath people like me will be forced to drive down cost in business as demand drops, and the 2 prime areas of cost saving are investment plans e.g. equipment etc, and resource i.e. head count, so normal hard working people will lose their jobs, and for what? What tangible benefit from Brexit are these people (many of whom will have actually voted for it) going to get? What ‘Sovereignty’ benefits are heading their way, what’s the upside for your average man in the street? As I’m stuffed if I can see it, and pardon me for passionately wanting to make people open their eyes to what’s coming here, and to stop listening to spivs and liars like Farage and Rees Mogg, and take on board the reality of what a no deal Brexit would do to this country, and trust me - it ain’t gonna be pretty.
