Brexit Shock

[changeling67]

Well, that's an understatement really.  The news has rocked the EU to its roots.  Facebook has absolutely exploded as so has other social media platforms.  Real vitriolic stuff from both sides, family and friends divided, posts sickening enough for me to pull the plug on it for a long time.  The Pound has dived, the Market's tanked and many a hue and cry over splilt milk. Scotland are considering their own second referendum only twenty months after the last one and top Northern Ireland politicians are reconsidering their boundry lines - so much the fear for this troublesome poll.  Not totally unsurprisingly, David Cameron resigned at 8:20 this morning - looking like the most reviled and kicked PM since Maggie T. was ousted from No. 10 in 1990.

Shellshocked, I DO wonder now just what is going to happen to a) the rest of the EU, as others are rumoured to leave (Dutch for one); b) the UK, especially as it is not as United as it once was. 72% of people voted - this is a massive turn out, which proves to me one thing - people do not have the confidence that ministers from any faction are listening to them.  The higher brow newspapers are insinuating that only the thick and the old have voted to leave - which I think is a condescending and pretty derogatory tone.  Some of the medium brow and tabloids are victorious, but (they ask) at what cost?

I was a conchy abstainer. One of the 25,000 who deliberately marked their card to show objection to the crass comments and lies.  I never seriously considered that we WOULD wake up as a Brexit nation - I really thought that Cameron et al had steamrollered most people to vote remain. Why didn't I vote in the conventional way?  Because I didn't like how these arguments were becoming polarized.  'Brexit' had a point, but could not promise what the outcome could be - plus there were ugly bouts of xenophobia abound.  The 'Remain' Campaign did not convince enough influential people, nay put many off with their steamrollering approach to appeal to the public, wheeling every VIP except the Dalai Lama to remain.  I hasten to add that 'Brexit' too were very heavy-handed with their delivery, seemingly promising everything, but I suspect delivering us a pup.

It has been done now and now it is time to stop flapping and start to charter this ship through exceptionally choppy waters. Things need to stablise here, but the rumbles are getting louder and I wouldn't be surprised that there were now bouts of civil unrest as a result.  Since the Jo Cox murder, I worry about crazies taking matters into their own hands.  I myself have heard several yells of 'White Power!' (or variations on a theme) from cars passing my door and I am in a relatively quiet borough of rural Cornwall.

Deeply worrying times.

Comments

[bluegerl.livejournal.com]

It really did get very dirty indeed.Just show you how NICE they all really are...and so untrustworthy. ALL LIES! simply cos no one knows what WILL happen tomorrow. I did NOT like that last threat from Osborne about doing a Brexit Budget to PUNISH people...bastud. He's useless anyway. I loved old Cameron having to fall on his kitchen knife. Prat. But Corbyn I think was the only one who did not revert to unpleasant rudeness. He was so quietly putting his point no one heard him! Now the swine are doing a No Confidence... ambitious hard nuts.... me no likey them. I must say Farage looked so bloody super dapper yesterday! Felt like cheering him, I DO like a man who looks like he's taken great care over his clothes!! Doesn't get 'orrible blue soggy suits (like cameron and Osborne) from some tatty Supermarket.

Still. I am happy here. I don't think anything much will change... there's a lot of dismissive cover here, why fuss about a country leaving that was half out of its pants anyway!!! and the really only reason they are getting a bit worried here is that it might encourager les autres!!! (a lot of French want out as well... but hell, no one ever likes a government 100%!)

The bourses are only back where they were last week... the £ isn't any worse than the last time I got my pension... and if I have to have a carte de sejour as I did when I first came, I have two choices, have a Carte every ten years or Naturalize. (which I may well do anyway now that I've got all the hassle of the divorce and the medical things out of the way! I fancy being a French Piece!!! heh heh heh!)

And I've my pension which I PAID FOR MYSELF!!! and my health insurance that I am paying for... so.. I owe nobody nuffink.

Let's wait and see what will happen... HAHAH Old Sarkozy and Hollande have not just said Let's re-sort the EU... Have a look at it all and re-do it! HAHAH Cameron you've buggered it again!!!!

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

Cameron indeed buggered it - we will have to sit back and see how this goes. I am absolutely AMAZED when I hear that the people around the UK have been branded stupid or not knowing enough about the process. I think many know only too well how the process is run. It's dividing familes, friends etc. Huge rows - one young girl I know has been unfriended by people she has known for years. She is very upset as she said that it was meant to be a democratic process etc.

A very bitter day.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling it's going to get worse before it gets better - if it can get better.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

Need to build bridges where others have been burnt.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

I hope we can for all our sakes.

[(Anonymous)]

It seemed to me Cameron was campaigning to keep his job and Boris Johnson was trying to settle an old score. None of the issues related to me and I will admit to being too thick to understand what it was all about. So that's why I didn't vote.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

I totally understand and to be honest, many felt the same. I just hope it all settles down a bit soon :-/