Voices on Brexit

[Christin1529]

Hi there,
Me and two other girls are doing a school project called ‘‘Analysing different motives of Brexiteers‘‘.(We are from Germany and have do this in order to get our A-levels.) One topic of our project is ‘‘Voices on Brexit‘‘, there we want to write the stories of people who voted in favour of brexit. So if you voted ‘leave‘ please tell us why.(Reasons, hopes, expectations, maybe disappointments, if u regret your vote or are still happy with it...) Basically we would like to hear your story and everything you have experienced since Brexit! If you like, you could tell us your age, gender and country/state you are from. If you want to stay anonymous just write it with your story and we will accept it.
( We have to mention our source in the project, which means we will link this page)

We are looking forward to hear your Voice on Brexit!

 

[Bomber_Harris]

sounds like you're here to witness the car crash and are trying to ascertain which voices are doing the back seat driving insisting we continue to drive off the cliff, and who is screaming to stop the car and do a u-turn. If you hang around for another 6 months or so you'll probably be able to see first hand who gets wiped out, could be as much as 33% of this forum, probably more in some regions

 

[turbo]

sounds like you're here to witness the car crash and are trying to ascertain which voices are doing the back seat driving insisting we continue to drive off the cliff, and who is screaming to stop the car and do a u-turn. If you hang around for another 6 months or so you'll probably be able to see first hand who gets wiped out, could be as much as 33% of this forum, probably more in some regions

Good god man if you think like that what are you doing still farming?

 

[Bomber_Harris]

I'm not a farmer. I'm a vulture. We're approaching the end game and I assure you there will be more of us circling as the clock counts down. Some of those circling will even be other farmers. I'm fairly certain that Mr Dyson who's one of the biggest farmers in the UK is also circling and waiting. I don't mean to be callus, I'm just telling you the facts. There's been a lot of rhetoric when it comes to Brexit and not enough facts. So here we are.

 

[Ashtree]

Hi there,
Me and two other girls are doing a school project called ‘‘Analysing different motives of Brexiteers‘‘.(We are from Germany and have do this in order to get our A-levels.) One topic of our project is ‘‘Voices on Brexit‘‘, there we want to write the stories of people who voted in favour of brexit. So if you voted ‘leave‘ please tell us why.(Reasons, hopes, expectations, maybe disappointments, if u regret your vote or are still happy with it...) Basically we would like to hear your story and everything you have experienced since Brexit! If you like, you could tell us your age, gender and country/state you are from. If you want to stay anonymous just write it with your story and we will accept it.
( We have to mention our source in the project, which means we will link this page)

We are looking forward to hear your Voice on Brexit!

Just do a search on here with the words “Merkel, Germany, fourth reich,. You soon see the paranoid motivation for Brexit from quite a few hardened cases on here. Their logic is that the whole EU thing, is a dastardly plot by Germany to take over Europe by economic war.

 

[Devil_0101]

There are 2 topics asking users why did they vote "leave" or "remain" and what they were expecting from it. There is another forum too more oriented on the politic, i might not want to give the link but you can find it on the first result at brexit forums. Regards.

 

[turbo]

I'm not a farmer. I'm a vulture. We're approaching the end game and I assure you there will be more of us circling as the clock counts down. Some of those circling will even be other farmers. I'm fairly certain that Mr Dyson who's one of the biggest farmers in the UK is also circling and waiting. I don't mean to be callus, I'm just telling you the facts. There's been a lot of rhetoric when it comes to Brexit and not enough facts. So here we are.

But are they actually facts or how you see interpret it

 

[fudge]

Hi there,
Me and two other girls are doing a school project called ‘‘Analysing different motives of Brexiteers‘‘.(We are from Germany and have do this in order to get our A-levels.) One topic of our project is ‘‘Voices on Brexit‘‘, there we want to write the stories of people who voted in favour of brexit. So if you voted ‘leave‘ please tell us why.(Reasons, hopes, expectations, maybe disappointments, if u regret your vote or are still happy with it...) Basically we would like to hear your story and everything you have experienced since Brexit! If you like, you could tell us your age, gender and country/state you are from. If you want to stay anonymous just write it with your story and we will accept it.
( We have to mention our source in the project, which means we will link this page)

We are looking forward to hear your Voice on Brexit!

As someone who voted remain I cannot really help you. However I believe the root cause of Brexit is the disconnection between population and government in the UK. There are many reasons for this, almost as many as there are leave voters. However I live in a strongly leave area and the overriding concern of my neighbours was and still is immigration. Chancellor Merkel offered open ended access to refugees from the Middle East, from my remain perspective, this was a huge mistake, feeding fear of unlimited immigration from that region.

It will be interesting to see if my neighbours actually benefit from brexit or not. My prejudice is they have been promised stuff that leave politicians have no intention of delivering. This situation can only lead to further disaffection with the political process. However the EU can is no longer available as a scapegoat for Westminster’s failings. Perhaps then the overdue reform of the British constitution may take place.

 

[Bomber_Harris]

Turbo, I guess we'll find out in 6 months or so. Maybe less. I can wait. Tick tock

 

[turbo]

Turbo, I guess we'll find out in 6 months or so. Maybe less. I can wait. Tick tock

Neither can I but from my point of view things are already improving so bring it on

 

[Walterp]

"I voted against joining Europe in the 1970's, and I couldn't wait to do so again last year. We should never have joined - we didn't need them, never did, never shall; everyone knows how well the UK was doing by 1975, and things were on the up-and-up. If we hadn't joined, we'd had been so much better off than we are now.

It isn't as if we've been well-treated since we joined, either. Like I say, if we hadn't saved them in the War, the rest of them would all be speaking German by now.

We should have left on 24th June 2016 in my view - just cleared off, refused to pay anything and they'd soon come crawling back to us. After all, they need us more than we need them.

And another thing; I don't see what all the fuss is about Ireland. I heard that nice Mr Rees-Mogg explain on the radio how there was a simple solution for the Irish problem. I don't understand why the Government just doesn't listen to him, because he has all the answers. It's simple, really.

I reckon, come the next elections, Mr Rees-Mogg will get loads of votes for the Tories, and he may even make Prime Minister. God knows he deserves to be, he's a good man. Strong. Decent.

Anyway, everyone knows that the EU is falling apart - I doubt it'll still be there in a couple of years' time. Everywhere is swinging to the Right - look at AfD in Germany, they're getting loads of new votes and they believe in a strong Germany, not beholden to some unelected bureaucrats in Brussels.

I can see their point - if I was German, I'd vote for them.

They've got the right idea."

(My 73 year old neighbour).

 

[Pond digger]

Hi there,
Me and two other girls are doing a school project called ‘‘Analysing different motives of Brexiteers‘‘.(We are from Germany and have do this in order to get our A-levels.) One topic of our project is ‘‘Voices on Brexit‘‘, there we want to write the stories of people who voted in favour of brexit. So if you voted ‘leave‘ please tell us why.(Reasons, hopes, expectations, maybe disappointments, if u regret your vote or are still happy with it...) Basically we would like to hear your story and everything you have experienced since Brexit! If you like, you could tell us your age, gender and country/state you are from. If you want to stay anonymous just write it with your story and we will accept it.
( We have to mention our source in the project, which means we will link this page)

We are looking forward to hear your Voice on Brexit!

Hello,

I voted for Brexit because I felt the EU was becoming a threat to our national sovereignty. I feel we are being pushed towards ever greater political and monetary union, against the will of the majority. I don’t think the UK is ready for this degree of unity, and I’m not sure that we ever will be. Brussels is too far removed from the people of the UK to be able to fairly represent our interests; in fact, I think our interests are being sacrificed for the sake of some grand plan of EU federalisation.

I am happy to have a mutually beneficial trading relationship with the EU. I also believe we should cooperate closely on matters of security, defence, major scientific projects, and on many other things. However, I don’t believe that we (or any other EU country) need to abandon national identity in order to have a close relationship. Europe is so richly diverse in history, culture, geography and climate; we can never all be the same, and why would we want to be; diversity is good.

I have always been torn on the issue of Brexit; many good things could be said in favour of the EU, but it just seems unaccountable and blind to the concerns of its citizens. The whole thing is a disaster and highly regrettable: I wish so many people weren’t so very unhappy. If I had to vote again, I’d probably vote remain, but more out of financial self interest than anything else.

Regards

A 56 year old Yorkshireman

 

[arcobob]

My view is broadly similar to that of Pond Digger except that if there was a rerun of the referendum I would be even more determined to leave than I was two years ago. I have lost respect for political process and many politicians in the EU and the UK. The former I have no significant influence over, the latter I have some small influence over the elected representatives but none over the upper house which is unelected.

 

[Pond digger]

Their logic is that the whole EU thing, is a dastardly plot by Germany to take over Europe by economic war.

And how do you know it is not?

 

[Agrivator]

Angela Merkel went to Barbados this summer.

At the Airport, an immigration officer asked:

Name? ......... Angela Merkel,
Nationality? .......... German,
Occupation? .......... No, just visiting.

 

[Pond digger]

Angela Merkel went to Barbados this summer.

At the Airport, an immigration officer asked:

Name? ......... Angela Merkel,
Nationality? .......... German,
Occupation? .......... No, just visiting.

That took me a second or two.

 

[Strungup52]

My take, born in Liverpool, raised and farmed in Cumbria until age 47, now a Canadian resident age 66.
IF I had been allowed to vote it would have been Leave. Not entitled to vote as I was non resident more than 15 years - fair enough.
Reasons (i)to regain sovereignty
(ii)to remove Britain from the financial train wreck which is EU
(iii)to allow British entrepreneurs to thrive without strangulation of ever more odious EU regulation
(iv)to hasten a collapse of EU and return to the “simple” Common Market
(v)to give my grandchildren a freer future, as at least one is likely to return to Britain
I accept there will be a period of pain/readjustment/uncertainty. Naively, I did not foresee the catastrophic collapse in negotiating ability of the Government post June 2016.
A second referendum, if it were to be held, will not alter any divisions as I feel a result is not realistically likely to be more conclusive one way or the other.
I would still vote Leave, with more certainty, given ongoing messages from EU regarding ever closer union.

 

[arcobob]

Hello,

I voted for Brexit because I felt the EU was becoming a threat to our national sovereignty. I feel we are being pushed towards ever greater political and monetary union, against the will of the majority. I don’t think the UK is ready for this degree of unity, and I’m not sure that we ever will be. Brussels is too far removed from the people of the UK to be able to fairly represent our interests; in fact, I think our interests are being sacrificed for the sake of some grand plan of EU federalisation.

I am happy to have a mutually beneficial trading relationship with the EU. I also believe we should cooperate closely on matters of security, defence, major scientific projects, and on many other things. However, I don’t believe that we (or any other EU country) need to abandon national identity in order to have a close relationship. Europe is so richly diverse in history, culture, geography and climate; we can never all be the same, and why would we want to be; diversity is good.

I have always been torn on the issue of Brexit; many good things could be said in favour of the EU, but it just seems unaccountable and blind to the concerns of its citizens. The whole thing is a disaster and highly regrettable: I wish so many people weren’t so very unhappy. If I had to vote again, I’d probably vote remain, but more out of financial self interest than anything else.

Regards

A 56 year old Yorkshireman

 

[caveman]

Apparently.
20% of adult (18-34) French have never heard of the holocaust.
Maybe your time would be spent better on a tour of France to bring awareness.

 

[uztrac]

Many moons ago I voted to join the "Common Market" whereby we could trade freely with our neighbours. I did not vote to become a state in a "Federal Europe". I have no wish to see our armed forces report to some unelected eurocrats in Brussels,or become part of some "Euro Army " along with the macron & merkels of this world. I voted to leave the EU a couple of years ago and would do the same again if called upon.

a 75 year old patriot & countryman.