The big urban poll: Do you think Brexit has gone well or badly?
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platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Neither the sunlit uplands nor the total collapse and mass starvation predictions have come true, so I'd say it was neither well nor badly. A bit more border-related paperwork seems to be the main thing people are talking about, and this wasn't unexpected.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I thought Brexit was a terrible idea back in 2016. But I never imagined it would be done this badly.
discokermit
Well-Known Member
wages up and petite bourgeoise euro imperialists still crying. ticks my boxes.
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Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Ask me again in five years, if I'm still around. Far too early to tell.
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
I think brexit has been astonishingly successful at leaving the EU...
I think it's been excellent at exposing the moral and political vacuum of many who neither know nor care much about the EU beyond its personal convenience to them.
I've not once been reduced to eating rotting turnips in a field while rats scamper over the decomposing remains of my children.
(I voted remain).
I think it's been excellent at exposing the moral and political vacuum of many who neither know nor care much about the EU beyond its personal convenience to them.
I've not once been reduced to eating rotting turnips in a field while rats scamper over the decomposing remains of my children.
(I voted remain).
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Electorally, Brexit appears to have gone remarkably well for the party who's Government opposed it.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
I think it's gone pretty badly, and probably will get worse.
ItWillNeverWork
Messy Crimbobs, fellow humans.
It's gone brilliantly as we are no longer in the EU, which is precisely what I voted for.
It's a fucking disaster, but it hasn't gone badly since this was the only and inevitable outcome of a project built on lies perpetrated by the worst human beings in Britain
TopCat
Putin fanboy
It’s too early to really tell but the imagined disasters longed for by staunch remainers haven’t occurred.
Wages going up is good. The French and German political class are pissed off, also good.
Billings gate fish market is selling posh fish to the UK market whereas before it was exported but now we can eat it and it’s affordable.
Nigel Farage is no longer getting an MEP salary and expenses.
A united Ireland is much closer. This prize is worth ten million remainer moans about Tuscany retirement homes.
Wages going up is good. The French and German political class are pissed off, also good.
Billings gate fish market is selling posh fish to the UK market whereas before it was exported but now we can eat it and it’s affordable.
Nigel Farage is no longer getting an MEP salary and expenses.
A united Ireland is much closer. This prize is worth ten million remainer moans about Tuscany retirement homes.
discokermit
Well-Known Member
brexit also showed that when push comes to shove, the middle class left will align with their own class and imperialism rather than show solidarity with the working class.
One or two generalisations there surely?
(As in : By no means all 'Remain' voters were middle class/bourgeoisie, and neither were all 'Leave' voters working class, either).
discokermit
Well-Known Member
massive generalisations. so?
im not talking specifics, im talking broad general trends.
its how the right in the labour party pulled the rug from under corbyn. they knew half his support in the labour party would merrily go skipping off to listen to alistair campbell at some fbpe wankfest march because class is more important than what you tell people your politics are.
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Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Whoop! Another Brexit thread!!!!
Yes
-- sorry for turning it towards that ...... 
I'll just acknowledge discokermit 's reply without further comment .....
Supine
Newt Member
Supine
Newt Member
I seem to be the lone " My Chaffinch wears silk" voice in the political wilderness
foreign bird. foreign material.
Robins in wool ftw.
lazythursday
Averagely-Known Member
It might be a disaster for some specific businesses / sectors, but it doesn't seem to have been the absolute meltdown predicted by some remainers / business organisations, so I'd say 'Neither well nor badly' if it wasn't for the situation in Northern Ireland, which was utterly predictable and always going to be the biggest downside of Brexit. So 'Fairly badly' for me.
Nope
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Feel kind of cheated in that regard, I personally was quite looking forward to rat on a spit, The trap in the shed caught another mouse last night and I threw its corpse in the wheelie whereas I was expecting than post-Brexit I would be able to either eat or sell it.
More seriously I think a lot of the consequences of Brexit have been hidden as a result of the lurgy and much of the economic cost of Brexit will get pinned on the aftermaths of the plague. It really is too early to tell whether Brexit has been good or bad for me personally yet, It does seem to me that things like food seems to have got more expensive but a) I am fortunate enough not to live on the breadline anyway and b) I have made massive savings on things like fuel and leisure as a result of the lurgy.
I voted Remain and most of the people I know who voted Leave did so because they were unhappy with the number of people with funny accents, the plague has prevented me from seeing almost all of those people so I don't know whether they judge it a success or a failure. Like everything else there are going to be winners and losers but I'm still convinced that the latter will far outnumber the former in the long run.
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