Why should it make me feel ashamed exactly Bruce? If your other half feel's uncomfortable and unwelcome I'm sorry about that but that's no work of mine. I'm perfectly happy with legit skilled workers coming to live here, and from what you've written it seems she would be more then qualified. I voted what I believed in my hart to be the best thing for this country. This is the issue with some remainers, you won't except that lots of people had very good reasons to vote as they did and it doesn't make them a bad person for doing so.
All these nonsense fear mongering stories the remain side told only hurt their argument, and possibly were the reason they lost. People don't like being threatened and to say war is inevitable of we have the temerity to leave a club we were never officially asked to join in the first place sounds like a fairly big threat to me. And the end of western civilisation? You think that's on the cards because we choose not to stay in the EU? Wow.
You don't think this vote has legitimized racist thoughts and actions in any way? I'll say again, that was predicted prior to the referendum and dismissed as scaremongering, yet not only have those on the political extremes lauded the result, but there has also been a rise in racist incidences across the country. So those fears have been very much vindicated.
Regarding the skilled workers, you might be but surely you can see that the general climate in the country is more anti-foreigner now than it was a year ago. Whether someone is technically allowed to remain in the country, if there's a perception that someone isn't wanted then no amount of technicalities will persuade them to stay.
There has been much written about how commerce dislikes uncertainty, but the same is true at an individual level, as there has been absolutely no meat on the bones from leave campaigners about just what will happen once we leave in regards to EU citizens living and working in Britain now. You have people with mortgages and businesses that may have to leave the country, you have researchers that are being shut out of bids due to the uncertainty involved.
Regarding your final point, of course the end of western civilization is hyperbole, unquestionably. What I do think however is that the probability of unrest has increased significantly, and I said as much several times on this forum before the vote. Ireland has an increased probability of unrest. Scotland and the breakup of the Union seems to have increased in likelihood. The rise of extremist political parties has grown in probability since the election, as has the prospect of an extremist entering the White House. Whilst it's unlikely that these things will signal the end of western civilization, none of them are positive in regards to the way of life we cherish so dearly.
As for war, well history is littered with examples of wars emerging when countries have reason to hate on one another, so it seems reasonable to me that if the EU falls apart that this raises the possibility of war blighting Europe again. That's not fear mongering, that's just observing history. The whole idea of the likes of the EU and NATO was to ensure that the world is so inter-connected in terms of the flow of trade, people and information that war would be nonsensical, and it has worked in that we haven't had conflict in western-Europe since then.
You may regard this as unlikely, but we've seen in this country the rise in hate-crime against those who the nutters feel legitimized in blaming for whatever woes have befallen them. Now place yourself in a scenario whereby those nutters are actually in government, as we might have soon in places like Austria or maybe even France and America. Is that a nice picture to you? Is that a picture you see coming out well?
