Having scanned the last few pages of this thread I think I’m finally done with ever engaging about Brexit again. The notion of “We were fine before and we’ll be fine after” has finally done me in. The world has changed - how could anyone of sound mind believe it’s this simple. Things are not the way they were, it is a different world and whether you like it or not, things have changed. That means applying decades old ‘stiff upper lip’ nonsense simply ain’t gonna cut it. Oh, the youth of today, they just don’t know hardship - why would you want us to? Why do you want young people to know what it used to be like? Just because you lived through some right old crap, or your parents did, doesn’t mean you have to make everyone else do the same. The very idea of young people just needing a good dose of what life was like thirty, forty years ago is insane. It’s sadistic if anything. But by all means, people, vote on the direction of a world you clearly don’t even understand. We’re all really grateful for that, and I for one can’t wait to go back to closed borders, vastly increased import and export duty, and chimney sweeps and coal miners merrily skipping down the road as they prepare for another busy day. Because that’s definitely what’s going to happen - it’ll be like Mary Poppins and we’ll all rejoice as we wave our miniature Union Jacks. We shall holiday in Blackpool, Great Yarmouth and Weymouth, and we shall eat rock and chips every day that we are there, staying in our luxurious chalets by the sea.
Genuinely, the biggest reason for Brexit was people over a certain age being frightened of a world they no longer understand, and fearfully lashing out in an attempt to drag us back to the nation of their childhoods. It isn’t going to happen, those days are long gone, but at least the rest of us can spend the rest of our lives cleaning up the mess as we watch through the window while the rest of the world continues moving forwards in a more unified and progressive manner. Gosh, it’s going to be a real treat buying more British products from British businesses to support British people. I mean obviously it’s different now, because in decades gone by we used more British products that were often made by industries that are long gone, but we can rebuild! We can just go back to it, spend more money making things which will mean some businesses close and others downsize due to rising costs or broken supply chains, meaning less people are employed or have less money while product costs rise, which in turn leads to less sales and on and on we go, but it’ll be great! We don’t need any of the foreign muck, and we can definitely, definitely seemlessly unplug ourselves from something we’ve been embedded in for some 40 plus years, virtually overnight and with no pain and hardship at all. We can just up and leave and there’s no way anything bad can come from it. Rule bloody Britannia, eh?
I had a crap time growing up, so you little shits can have the same, only I’m too old and outdated to be of any help in sorting out the mess I’ve bestowed upon you. But at least you’ll know how things used to be, you little sods.
Shambles.