Life After Brexit

[Onelife]

Not forgetting Ed Davey, who said Lib Dem’s will vote against the deal, followed up with “ a responsible opposition wouldn’t have an opinion without looking at the detail.”

Then throw in Kier Starmer who's deliveries are so monotone and predictable that even the diehards of his party must be thinking they should have chosen Lisa.

[Gill W]

Blimey, you’ve got your trade deal, it’s Christmas Eve, and you are all still moaning.

[oldbluefox]

After all the stunts I have seen on the TV this last four years, the court cases, the shenanigans in parliament and the sniping by Remainers I am celebrating tonight not only that we are out of this controlling institution but we are actually doing it with a deal. That is a bonus no matter what it says for us and our European friends as I would have accepted a no deal but it has been a good Brexit day.

There are still those who would run our country down in order to try and force their Remainer views on us . They deserve any ridicule coming their way. On the contrary we should be talking our country up instead of constantly knocking it. The deal is as good as done.

Merry Christmas.

[Mervyn and Trish]

After all the stunts I have seen on the TV this last four years, the court cases, the shenanigans in parliament and the sniping by Remainers I am celebrating tonight not only that we are out of this controlling institution but we are actually doing it with a deal. That is a bonus no matter what it says for us and our European friends as I would have accepted a no deal but it has been a good Brexit day.

There are still those who would run our country down in order to try and force their Remainer views on us . They deserve any ridicule coming their way. On the contrary we should be talking our country up instead of constantly knocking it. The deal is as good as done.

Merry Christmas.

I couldn't have put it better. Merry Christmas.

[towny44]

After all the stunts I have seen on the TV this last four years, the court cases, the shenanigans in parliament and the sniping by Remainers I am celebrating tonight not only that we are out of this controlling institution but we are actually doing it with a deal. That is a bonus no matter what it says for us and our European friends as I would have accepted a no deal but it has been a good Brexit day.

There are still those who would run our country down in order to try and force their Remainer views on us . They deserve any ridicule coming their way. On the contrary we should be talking our country up instead of constantly knocking it. The deal is as good as done.

Merry Christmas.

I couldn't have put it better. Merry Christmas.

The unfortunate thing is that they don't really see Brexit as something to celebrate, and there are quite a lot of them around, not as many as they like to think, but enough disgruntled ones to seize any opportunity to make capital out of any future setbacks, no matter how minor.

[screwy]

Blimey, you’ve got your trade deal, it’s Christmas Eve, and you are all still moaning.

Says the arch Re - moaner.
Merry Xmas Gill.

[Onelife]

After all the stunts I have seen on the TV this last four years, the court cases, the shenanigans in parliament and the sniping by Remainers I am celebrating tonight not only that we are out of this controlling institution but we are actually doing it with a deal. That is a bonus no matter what it says for us and our European friends as I would have accepted a no deal but it has been a good Brexit day.

There are still those who would run our country down in order to try and force their Remainer views on us . They deserve any ridicule coming their way. On the contrary we should be talking our country up instead of constantly knocking it. The deal is as good as done.

Merry Christmas.

I couldn't have put it better. Merry Christmas.

Neither could l, ànd in the spirit of going forward l'm going to give Boris a tentative ...

[Stephen]

Let’s all look forward to 2021 and the party at Onelifes. Ooops, sorry Keith, have I spoken too soon.

[Onelife]

Let’s all look forward to 2021 and the party at Onelifes. Ooops, sorry Keith, have I spoken too soon.

All welcome.....remember to close the door behind you..... I've just moved house

[david63]

in the spirit of going forward l'm going to give Boris a tentative ...

At least Boris has escaped Keefies chocolates

[oldbluefox]

Couldn't get them past security.

[Stephen]

Even Larry turned his nose up at them.

I believe they're being use for mouse trap bait.

[Onelife]

Even Larry turned his nose up at them.

I believe they're being use for mouse trap bait.

You don’t have to tell me about mouse rat trap bait Stephen..but I’ll tell you about after you’ve had your Christmas dinner

[Frank Manning]

After all the stunts I have seen on the TV this last four years, the court cases, the shenanigans in parliament and the sniping by Remainers I am celebrating tonight not only that we are out of this controlling institution but we are actually doing it with a deal. That is a bonus no matter what it says for us and our European friends as I would have accepted a no deal but it has been a good Brexit day.

There are still those who would run our country down in order to try and force their Remainer views on us . They deserve any ridicule coming their way. On the contrary we should be talking our country up instead of constantly knocking it. The deal is as good as done.

Merry Christmas.

I couldn't have put it better. Merry Christmas.

I think that is a bit hard Gary. There are those of us who voted remain for very sincere reasons, and who would not dream of putting our country down. Trust me I have taken plenty of ridicule, and some very unintelligent insults from Brexiteers, but hey its water off a ducks back to me. I wasn't influenced by anything beyond my own experience. If my former colleagues at Honeywell keep their manufacturing jobs in Poole now that we have an agreement I will be delighted. Similarly, Nissan Sunderland, and BMW/Mini Oxford. I will be even more delighted if the insults stop, and we all accept as Sue says "It is what it is". It has been almost as divisive as the English civil war, and we desperately need to heal those wounds and stop throwing mud at each other. I am sorry for my fisherman friend on the Isle of Wight who voted brexit for sincere reasons. He feels that as ever their industry has been sacrificed.

Sue had other reasons for voting remain. Her Grandad was shot dead by a sniper in Belgium in 1917. She simply says did all those European people die in two terrible world wars for us to start opening up the wounds again? Our tabloids have run some dreadful headlines in the past five years, and as Sue says stop antagonising the europeans with past history. It was 80 years ago for goodness sake.

For me, my new years resolutions will include not mentioning Brexit again, not reading readers comments in the Mail on line. That will be a start towards a happy new year. Which sentiment I wish all members of this forum.

[towny44]

After all the stunts I have seen on the TV this last four years, the court cases, the shenanigans in parliament and the sniping by Remainers I am celebrating tonight not only that we are out of this controlling institution but we are actually doing it with a deal. That is a bonus no matter what it says for us and our European friends as I would have accepted a no deal but it has been a good Brexit day.

There are still those who would run our country down in order to try and force their Remainer views on us . They deserve any ridicule coming their way. On the contrary we should be talking our country up instead of constantly knocking it. The deal is as good as done.

Merry Christmas.

I couldn't have put it better. Merry Christmas.

I think that is a bit hard Gary. There are those of us who voted remain for very sincere reasons, and who would not dream of putting our country down. Trust me I have taken plenty of ridicule, and some very unintelligent insults from Brexiteers, but hey its water off a ducks back to me. I wasn't influenced by anything beyond my own experience. If my former colleagues at Honeywell keep their manufacturing jobs in Poole now that we have an agreement I will be delighted. Similarly, Nissan Sunderland, and BMW/Mini Oxford. I will be even more delighted if the insults stop, and we all accept as Sue says "It is what it is". It has been almost as divisive as the English civil war, and we desperately need to heal those wounds and stop throwing mud at each other. I am sorry for my fisherman friend on the Isle of Wight who voted brexit for sincere reasons. He feels that as ever their industry has been sacrificed.

Sue had other reasons for voting remain. Her Grandad was shot dead by a sniper in Belgium in 1917. She simply says did all those European people die in two terrible world wars for us to start opening up the wounds again? Our tabloids have run some dreadful headlines in the past five years, and as Sue says stop antagonising the europeans with past history. It was 80 years ago for goodness sake.

For me, my new years resolutions will include not mentioning Brexit again, not reading readers comments in the Mail on line. That will be a start towards a happy new year. Which sentiment I wish all members of this forum.

As a leaver, like Foxy, I am very happy we will eventually fully leave the EU in January, and even more happy that a trade deal has been agreed.
I don't agree with Frank's claims that remainers were the only ones subjected to ridicule for their views, there are plenty of posts on here from remainers that were extremely uncomplimentary about leavers and their lack of intelligence for not viewing the world in the same way as remainers.
But if the remainers want a clean slate, that's fine by me, but I will be on the lookout for what I feel certain will lots of further comments when the left wing remain media start to question any minor deviation from their assumption of what Brexit meant.

[oldbluefox]

After all the stunts I have seen on the TV this last four years, the court cases, the shenanigans in parliament and the sniping by Remainers I am celebrating tonight not only that we are out of this controlling institution but we are actually doing it with a deal. That is a bonus no matter what it says for us and our European friends as I would have accepted a no deal but it has been a good Brexit day.

There are still those who would run our country down in order to try and force their Remainer views on us . They deserve any ridicule coming their way. On the contrary we should be talking our country up instead of constantly knocking it. The deal is as good as done.

Merry Christmas.

I couldn't have put it better. Merry Christmas.

I think that is a bit hard Gary. There are those of us who voted remain for very sincere reasons, and who would not dream of putting our country down. Trust me I have taken plenty of ridicule, and some very unintelligent insults from Brexiteers, but hey its water off a ducks back to me. I wasn't influenced by anything beyond my own experience. If my former colleagues at Honeywell keep their manufacturing jobs in Poole now that we have an agreement I will be delighted. Similarly, Nissan Sunderland, and BMW/Mini Oxford. I will be even more delighted if the insults stop, and we all accept as Sue says "It is what it is". It has been almost as divisive as the English civil war, and we desperately need to heal those wounds and stop throwing mud at each other. I am sorry for my fisherman friend on the Isle of Wight who voted brexit for sincere reasons. He feels that as ever their industry has been sacrificed.

Sue had other reasons for voting remain. Her Grandad was shot dead by a sniper in Belgium in 1917. She simply says did all those European people die in two terrible world wars for us to start opening up the wounds again? Our tabloids have run some dreadful headlines in the past five years, and as Sue says stop antagonising the europeans with past history. It was 80 years ago for goodness sake.

For me, my new years resolutions will include not mentioning Brexit again, not reading readers comments in the Mail on line. That will be a start towards a happy new year. Which sentiment I wish all members of this forum.

Nice post Frank. Knowing you personally I know it is sincere.

I don't agree my post was particularly hard. As a moderator I toned it down quite a bit ( ) but I think my second paragraph sums up my feelings where I say "There are still those..........." and I stand by that comment. As a long standing Brexiteer, even longer before that term was derived, I have always taken an holistic view towards the situation and tried to take into account there were good things about the EU and some I flatly rejected. What I do not accept is some of the virtual hysteria applied by some to our leaving the EU or sarcastic sniping which may accompany it. On balance I voted to leave but it's a pity some could not respect my decision or even the decision the country made.

Sue is right "It is what it is" so I would hope we could rejoice in good news and stop looking for fault and apportioning blame on a "them and us" basis.

Best wishes for a happy and healthy New Year.

[Manoverboard]

As a Brexiteer I have encountered very little aggression and spite from the Remainers that we know and in some cases love. We have collectively managed throughout to debate our differences in an adult manner, to try to understand the reasons for our differences and to respect the other persons’ point of view. Only on this Forum, I say with much regret and sadness, have I witnessed self opinionated hostility, open ridicule and deliberate spite. There was a time when I respected the two main antagonists but not any more. Brexit is a done deal and I have no intention of fanning the flames of Brexit past.

[Gill W]

I couldn't have put it better. Merry Christmas.

I think that is a bit hard Gary. There are those of us who voted remain for very sincere reasons, and who would not dream of putting our country down. Trust me I have taken plenty of ridicule, and some very unintelligent insults from Brexiteers, but hey its water off a ducks back to me. I wasn't influenced by anything beyond my own experience. If my former colleagues at Honeywell keep their manufacturing jobs in Poole now that we have an agreement I will be delighted. Similarly, Nissan Sunderland, and BMW/Mini Oxford. I will be even more delighted if the insults stop, and we all accept as Sue says "It is what it is". It has been almost as divisive as the English civil war, and we desperately need to heal those wounds and stop throwing mud at each other. I am sorry for my fisherman friend on the Isle of Wight who voted brexit for sincere reasons. He feels that as ever their industry has been sacrificed.

Sue had other reasons for voting remain. Her Grandad was shot dead by a sniper in Belgium in 1917. She simply says did all those European people die in two terrible world wars for us to start opening up the wounds again? Our tabloids have run some dreadful headlines in the past five years, and as Sue says stop antagonising the europeans with past history. It was 80 years ago for goodness sake.

For me, my new years resolutions will include not mentioning Brexit again, not reading readers comments in the Mail on line. That will be a start towards a happy new year. Which sentiment I wish all members of this forum.

As a leaver, like Foxy, I am very happy we will eventually fully leave the EU in January, and even more happy that a trade deal has been agreed.
I don't agree with Frank's claims that remainers were the only ones subjected to ridicule for their views, there are plenty of posts on here from remainers that were extremely uncomplimentary about leavers and their lack of intelligence for not viewing the world in the same way as remainers.
But if the remainers want a clean slate, that's fine by me, but I will be on the lookout for what I feel certain will lots of further comments when the left wing remain media start to question any minor deviation from their assumption of what Brexit meant.

Frank didn't claim that remainers were the only ones subjected to ridicule for their views.


As I thought, instead of being contented with Brexit being achieved, and enjoying your life doing whatever it is that you couldn't do while the UK was in the EU, you are already actively seeking more divisions.

[Gill W]

I couldn't have put it better. Merry Christmas.

I think that is a bit hard Gary. There are those of us who voted remain for very sincere reasons, and who would not dream of putting our country down. Trust me I have taken plenty of ridicule, and some very unintelligent insults from Brexiteers, but hey its water off a ducks back to me. I wasn't influenced by anything beyond my own experience. If my former colleagues at Honeywell keep their manufacturing jobs in Poole now that we have an agreement I will be delighted. Similarly, Nissan Sunderland, and BMW/Mini Oxford. I will be even more delighted if the insults stop, and we all accept as Sue says "It is what it is". It has been almost as divisive as the English civil war, and we desperately need to heal those wounds and stop throwing mud at each other. I am sorry for my fisherman friend on the Isle of Wight who voted brexit for sincere reasons. He feels that as ever their industry has been sacrificed.

Sue had other reasons for voting remain. Her Grandad was shot dead by a sniper in Belgium in 1917. She simply says did all those European people die in two terrible world wars for us to start opening up the wounds again? Our tabloids have run some dreadful headlines in the past five years, and as Sue says stop antagonising the europeans with past history. It was 80 years ago for goodness sake.

For me, my new years resolutions will include not mentioning Brexit again, not reading readers comments in the Mail on line. That will be a start towards a happy new year. Which sentiment I wish all members of this forum.

Nice post Frank. Knowing you personally I know it is sincere.

I don't agree my post was particularly hard. As a moderator I toned it down quite a bit ( ) but I think my second paragraph sums up my feelings where I say "There are still those..........." and I stand by that comment. As a long standing Brexiteer, even longer before that term was derived, I have always taken an holistic view towards the situation and tried to take into account there were good things about the EU and some I flatly rejected. What I do not accept is some of the virtual hysteria applied by some to our leaving the EU or sarcastic sniping which may accompany it. On balance I voted to leave but it's a pity some could not respect my decision or even the decision the country made.

Sue is right "It is what it is" so I would hope we could rejoice in good news and stop looking for fault and apportioning blame on a "them and us" basis.

Best wishes for a happy and healthy New Year.

Hear hear. If that genuinely happens on this board, I hereby promise never to mention Dominic Cummings ever again!

[Gill W]

As a Brexiteer I have encountered very little aggression and spite from the Remainers that we know and in some cases love. We have collectively managed throughout to debate our differences in an adult manner, to try to understand the reasons for our differences and to respect the other persons’ point of view. Only on this Forum, I say with much regret and sadness, have I witnessed self opinionated hostility, open ridicule and deliberate spite. There was a time when I respected the two main antagonists but not any more. Brexit is a done deal and I have no intention of fanning the flames of Brexit past.

Hoorah!

[oldbluefox]

I think that is a bit hard Gary. There are those of us who voted remain for very sincere reasons, and who would not dream of putting our country down. Trust me I have taken plenty of ridicule, and some very unintelligent insults from Brexiteers, but hey its water off a ducks back to me. I wasn't influenced by anything beyond my own experience. If my former colleagues at Honeywell keep their manufacturing jobs in Poole now that we have an agreement I will be delighted. Similarly, Nissan Sunderland, and BMW/Mini Oxford. I will be even more delighted if the insults stop, and we all accept as Sue says "It is what it is". It has been almost as divisive as the English civil war, and we desperately need to heal those wounds and stop throwing mud at each other. I am sorry for my fisherman friend on the Isle of Wight who voted brexit for sincere reasons. He feels that as ever their industry has been sacrificed.

Sue had other reasons for voting remain. Her Grandad was shot dead by a sniper in Belgium in 1917. She simply says did all those European people die in two terrible world wars for us to start opening up the wounds again? Our tabloids have run some dreadful headlines in the past five years, and as Sue says stop antagonising the europeans with past history. It was 80 years ago for goodness sake.

For me, my new years resolutions will include not mentioning Brexit again, not reading readers comments in the Mail on line. That will be a start towards a happy new year. Which sentiment I wish all members of this forum.

Nice post Frank. Knowing you personally I know it is sincere.

I don't agree my post was particularly hard. As a moderator I toned it down quite a bit ( ) but I think my second paragraph sums up my feelings where I say "There are still those..........." and I stand by that comment. As a long standing Brexiteer, even longer before that term was derived, I have always taken an holistic view towards the situation and tried to take into account there were good things about the EU and some I flatly rejected. What I do not accept is some of the virtual hysteria applied by some to our leaving the EU or sarcastic sniping which may accompany it. On balance I voted to leave but it's a pity some could not respect my decision or even the decision the country made.

Sue is right "It is what it is" so I would hope we could rejoice in good news and stop looking for fault and apportioning blame on a "them and us" basis.

Best wishes for a happy and healthy New Year.

Hear hear. If that genuinely happens on this board, I hereby promise never to mention Dominic Cummings ever again!

You just can't help yourself can you Gill? Let's just give it a rest shall we?

[towny44]

I think that is a bit hard Gary. There are those of us who voted remain for very sincere reasons, and who would not dream of putting our country down. Trust me I have taken plenty of ridicule, and some very unintelligent insults from Brexiteers, but hey its water off a ducks back to me. I wasn't influenced by anything beyond my own experience. If my former colleagues at Honeywell keep their manufacturing jobs in Poole now that we have an agreement I will be delighted. Similarly, Nissan Sunderland, and BMW/Mini Oxford. I will be even more delighted if the insults stop, and we all accept as Sue says "It is what it is". It has been almost as divisive as the English civil war, and we desperately need to heal those wounds and stop throwing mud at each other. I am sorry for my fisherman friend on the Isle of Wight who voted brexit for sincere reasons. He feels that as ever their industry has been sacrificed.

Sue had other reasons for voting remain. Her Grandad was shot dead by a sniper in Belgium in 1917. She simply says did all those European people die in two terrible world wars for us to start opening up the wounds again? Our tabloids have run some dreadful headlines in the past five years, and as Sue says stop antagonising the europeans with past history. It was 80 years ago for goodness sake.

For me, my new years resolutions will include not mentioning Brexit again, not reading readers comments in the Mail on line. That will be a start towards a happy new year. Which sentiment I wish all members of this forum.

As a leaver, like Foxy, I am very happy we will eventually fully leave the EU in January, and even more happy that a trade deal has been agreed.
I don't agree with Frank's claims that remainers were the only ones subjected to ridicule for their views, there are plenty of posts on here from remainers that were extremely uncomplimentary about leavers and their lack of intelligence for not viewing the world in the same way as remainers.
But if the remainers want a clean slate, that's fine by me, but I will be on the lookout for what I feel certain will lots of further comments when the left wing remain media start to question any minor deviation from their assumption of what Brexit meant.

Frank didn't claim that remainers were the only ones subjected to ridicule for their views.


As I thought, instead of being contented with Brexit being achieved, and enjoying your life doing whatever it is that you couldn't do while the UK was in the EU, you are already actively seeking more divisions.

I am not actively seeking more divisions, if you correctly read my post you should have noted that I said I would react only to a remain poster seeking to assume , as usual, that they know more about what we really wanted out of Brexit than we did, and highlighting dubious media coverage.

[Onelife]

I don’t wish to signal anyone out for a special mention because at the end of the day this is a chat forum with varying points of view and depth of feeling. What I do hope is that we continue to judge each post on its merits and not allow the baggage of previous posts to influence the replies of those that will hopefully follow.

[Stephen]

Sounds like there’s a mod vacancy going

[Gill W]

You just can't help yourself can you Gill? Let's just give it a rest shall we?

That was meant as a humorous remark, but with serious intent.

We ALL need to give it a rest