Going, going, gone. Voting is not like buying an ill-fitting shirt from M&S, there is no returns policy in politics.

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Going, going, gone. Voting is not like buying an ill-fitting shirt from M&S, there is no returns policy in politics.

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But when it turns out that Britain can't afford to leave the EEA - or at least the European Single Market - and so free movement remains a requirement I suspect there may be quite a few people that want their money back. This vote was overwhelmingly about immigration in the end.

It is a shame that the Labour party probably won't be able to remove someone who has proved himself a pretty useless leader, it is in nobody's interests to have a weak opposition. Corby seems to me pretty selfish, he is so 'principled' that he fails to fully grasp he is there to represent the people.

I've been lurking, reading, taking this thread in. Whilst I won't indulge in the willy waving, I will say this; not all us young 'uns who voted to Remain are sour, or bitter, about the specific decision to leave the EU; currencies bounce back, markets recover etc.

What I think is happening, if I can draw on anecdotal evidence, is there's a generation disillusioned with the country they live in, and the social commentary this whole thing has provided; it has supposedly legitimized racism, xenophobia and discrimination. I'm far more aggrieved at the turn out for young people than I am the older generation deciding a future they won't get to see, so my generation (and younger) have only theirselves to blame. The disinterest in politics is a lengthy subject, whether that be social disconnect, political betrayal or the fact that we're particularly guilty of taking things for granted, but all of this has been exacerbated by one thing; poor campaign messages and a lack of leadership, particularly for the Remain Campaign.

It's abdunatly clear that the Leave Campaign used lies, misinformation and downright myths to win people over, and the Remain campaign was woefully undercooked, lacked conviction and failed to actually influence fence-sitters. Personally, despite voting Remain, I have no issue in principle with leaving the EU, but a hell of a lot of my friends and people I know voted in an attempt to show solidarity and defiance against a UK where Nigel Farage can be taken seriously.

Fundamentally, it disgusts a lot of us to see people beating their chest, proclaiming they've got their country back, calling out Europeans to pack their bags and reveling in a mindset that has no place in a modern world. Not all leavers are racists, and I'd certainly not wish to undermine anyone's opinions or views, particularly fellow HOL'ers, but to say we're all sour and bitter is just wrong. We're disillusioned to see the country so split, for so many social dinosaurs legitimized and for so many to be hoodwinked by myths and misinformation.

It is what it is; I don't like it, I'll continue to be disheartened by some of the views and actions others are taking, and I worry about where this rabbit hole leads, but all any of us can do is role up our sleeves and get on with it.

So after the Seismic shock of leaving the EU and the end of the World predictions if we did, everything seems to be quite normal in my part of Kent.
The M26 was closed last night for flooding but apart from that the bowels of hell do not appear to have opened just yet.