Does anyone else feel genuinely depressed about Brexit.

I feel really genuinely upset about it, it is a plunge into the dark, it goes in the face of so much of what I believe in - I think it is a vote founded in xenophobia, it probably wouldn't have happened if not for the plight of Syrian refugees and the fear that working class people have of brown-skinned foreigners, which is an appalling indictment of out country. It is a huge risk financially and whilst I am not averse to risk the fact that there is no clear benefit to leaving the EU makes me feel sick. I think that the fact that 16 and 17 year old's were not allowed to vote whilst sagging wrinkled grannies knocking on heavens door can vote is a disgrace (talk about undemocratic) and if the news is anything to go by most 60+ voters were voting leave for reasons that a particularly stupid toddler could pick holes in. Scotland are going to leave the UK (and lets not pretend this won't happen, it will), something which barely seemed to get a mention in the TV debates, presumably to avoid the pathetic petulant accusation of "scare mongering".

I really do think this is a terrible moment for Britain. It may pay off, but probably won't - and even now I can't quite grasp what the leave vote is fundamentally for, beyond the sweeping, skin deep catchphrases like 'because immigration!' or 'to get our country back!'...

It is a sad time, in which the most ignorant parts of society have managed to shove the rest of us around. It really is sad.

I feel really genuinely upset about it, it is a plunge into the dark, it goes in the face of so much of what I believe in - I think it is a vote founded in xenophobia, it probably wouldn't have happened if not for the plight of Syrian refugees and the fear that working class people have of brown-skinned foreigners, which is an appalling indictment of out country. It is a huge risk financially and whilst I am not averse to risk the fact that there is no clear benefit to leaving the EU makes me feel sick. I think that the fact that 16 and 17 year old's were not allowed to vote whilst sagging wrinkled grannies knocking on heavens door can vote is a disgrace (talk about undemocratic) and if the news is anything to go by most 60+ voters were voting leave for reasons that a particularly stupid toddler could pick holes in. Scotland are going to leave the UK (and lets not pretend this won't happen, it will), something which barely seemed to get a mention in the TV debates, presumably to avoid the pathetic petulant accusation of "scare mongering".

I really do think this is a terrible moment for Britain. It may pay off, but probably won't - and even now I can't quite grasp what the leave vote is fundamentally for, beyond the sweeping, skin deep catchphrases like 'because immigration!' or 'to get our country back!'...

It is a sad time, in which the most ignorant parts of society have managed to shove the rest of us around. It really is sad.

It's 27 countries that are incapable of agreeing on anything before months of negotiations. Look at the time they took on the Migrants Crisis, the Greek Debt Crisis, the Ukraine Crisis. The UK will not face a united front.
The Spanish real estate sector was almost annihilated in 2008, but has since coyly recovered thanks to British pensioners who buy houses there. If the EU puts restrictions on British immigrants or investments, Spanish real estate will go down again. As Spain is still without a government (there are elections tomorrow), it will be a disaster (hence why Spanish markets have plunged on Friday).
Btw, the Communists are set to win tomorrow, so the disaster may happen anyway (and the UK will suddenly not look that bad).
Many, if not most, British industries have already left the UK. This is why people voted Leave in the North and Wales.

The pound crashing, and the dissolution of our own union? Thanks to the leave guise for sorting that for us..
Notice the similarity:

The oldest democracies in the world Italy and Greece are in the EU.

Okay, stupid question, of course you do.


I've felt so down all day because of this, and just have this constant sick feeling in my stomach. I genuinely feel like I'm grieving.

I feel like I'm grieving for our growing economy (slow but steady).

I'm grieving for our loss of cultural enrichment. If we weren't a part of the EU I'd never have met people from the likes France, Norway, Germany, who have so much to offer to our country. We have so much to gain from these cultures.

I'm grieving for us no longer being a leading institution for academia. The vast majority of my lecturers were European researchers- Germans, Dutch, Portuguese, Swiss, Italian. Without these people, the research department at my university would be nothing. UK is no longer going to be at the forefront of science.

I just feel so ashamed for us as a country. For making such a strong gesture of unwelcome to EU migrants. My sister's boss is Portuguese, and she could see the sheer hurt in her, with her boss expressing that she now feels unwelcome in the place she calls home. This is mirrored by so many EU immigrants across the UK. My university professor tweeted-

"I am an EU migrant trying to make a contribution to your country. It is because of people like me you voted Leave. Yes, it hurts."

I just feel so disgusted and sickened that we chose to make these people unwelcome. These who have such much to contribute to us.

I feel genuinely depressed about this. Can anyone who voted Stay shine a light on this for me please. And anyone who voted Leave, **** off, you should be made to pick up the pieces.

"get over it"

Our country's sustained a major wound and you're making it sound like we lost a card game. OK.

I expect we may well keep free movement anyway. It will be difficult to negotiate a deal which does not allow this while maintaining decent trade links, so there will probably be compromise. Even if not, skilled workers like professors simply would not be the target of restrictions on immigration. There will not suddenly be a mass shortage of professors. We won't be shut off from Europe simply because we are not in the EU. Norway and Switzerland are no less European for being out of the EU.

If they feel unwelcome, I am sorry but that is something they have to deal with. Until they are explicitly made unwelcome, this is just their perception of the result. We opted out of a political and economic union, we did not tick a box "get rid of EU migrants". It is utter nonsense and generalisation to insinuate that the majority of leave voters voted leave because of EU migrants with skilled jobs. Personally, for instance, I am barely even concerned about limiting immigration relatively speaking, let alone limiting the immigration of those who obviously contribute to the economy and to society like your professors. It is not all black and white, the world is not going to end and we are not shutting ourselves off from Europe.

I was starting to think, "ah its alright, just a little of economic struggles"

Then I realised what an excellent unique deal we had, I also realised how this vote was decided by baby boomers, who have lived their lives with free education, little debt and cheap housing, and in a final act of selfishness, in their dying breaths took a permanent decision we were unhappy with.

I also thought about how we might have brought the beginning of the end of a true force for good, the final destiny of Europe, after such a rich history, all thrown away for fear of our own brothers and sisters, many by people who has never met such people.

So yeah, I'm quite depressed.

I don't usually like Vox, since its quite reactionary and likes to talk about identity politics mainly, but this really hit the nail on the head for me: http://www.vox.com/2016/6/24/12025954/brexit-young-voters-remain

It's absolutely horrible, it doesn't even feel real. I feel unwelcome in my own country.

I am disgusted not at the result, but at the kind of people that enforced it. Fear mongering and misinformation, that inevitably swayed many to regret their vote. I am disappointed, but can only force myself and others to remain optimistic and hopeful about our future here.

How pathetic, don't come crying to us when your Brexit plan falls through.

Sustained a major wound? How so?

Same, I'm a bit heartbroken. I don't want to live in a country full of hatred and racism. I don't want to live in a country where I can't get a job despite going to university and working hard for my degree. I don't want to live in a country where I can't freely travel Europe and experience new cultures, meet new friends, make job connections and have the possibility of working abroad without visas and hassle. I don't want to live in a country where agriculture receives no funding and the industry finally dies (my family are mosty from a farming background, I can't bear to see them potentially go bankrupt or have to sell everything they own and have worked for since the age of 16 and younger).


Why on earth did this happen. Oh yes, because Farage. I hope he goes to hell.

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I've explained myself to you before, I'm not going to repeatedly again mention it. You sound like the leave voters who voted on the premise of immigration.

I've explained myself to you before, I'm not going to repeatedly again mention it. You sound like the leave voters who voted on the premise of immigration.

Only 48% of them.

Destroyed our economy, destroyed our relationship with Europe, destroyed our position as a place of international business and investment, unleashed a tide of previously thinly disguised racism, declared ourselves internationally as xenophobes who would rather ruin our own state and everything in it than welcome foreigners, destroyed our rights and benefits as European citizens, destroyed Great Britain itself if the Scottish have the re-referendum they certainly deserve after being screwed in this almighty fashion... I wouldn't jump on a sinking ship either.

We will of course not be doing anything of the sort about changing emissions or competition or anything like that because we'll have to buy into the free market and follow most of their rules anyway. Or completely lose the right to free movement and genuinely bankrupt ourselves into the deepest recession the country has ever seen by destroying just under 50% of our trade in one fell swoop. So assuming we buy in, we'll be following the rules but no longer have any say in making them. Contrary to popular belief, the UK actually got a lot done to our benefit in the EU and also blocked a lot of things which weren't to our benefit, which will now affect us without us being able to have any say.

I honestly cannot say that any of the rules we can now ditch are anything more than trivial compared to what we have just done to ourselves in damage. People got so fixated on the relatively few rules the EU did impose that we disagreed with that they lost sight of the bigger picture.

This nation is coming across to the world as legions of small minded bigots who'd rather shoot themselves in the foot, divide their country into separate nations and destroy their futures than have a tolerant society that looked outwards into the world to solve problems, instead of opting out so we can sit in a little dark corner by ourselves, spitting at passers by when they come too close.

Like we are now literally the opposite of everything the UK has ever been in its history - outward looking, problem solving, negotiating, assuming roles of responsibility, innovating, pioneering and welcoming things from other countries in order to better our own.

I couldn't have put it any more perfectly. Even setting aside all the major economic and diplomatic benefits, EU membership also provided many 'soft' benefits such as having the freedom to simply live anywhere else in the union, a benefit that, contrary to popular belief, benefits British citizens too. I did have plans to move to the continent later in life, but this has been quashed now as that job no longer exists. I also have a friend who lives in Germany, and visiting will be made more difficult because of this result. Just little aspects of life like this, that affect thousands of people, now face barriers due to our EU exit.


(Brexiters):

And regarding the steel industry crisis, the government was already committed to provide funds to rescue the industry if they could find a buyer. Even if this were not the case, it is arguably economically more viable simply to import cheaper steel. Pumping funds into a dying industry is like sustaining someone for a few more weeks on life support; no one wants to let go but in the end it will make little difference. If you think the job losses in this industry were bad, just wait until you see the thousands of workers who are now jobless as a result of Brexit, this includes large numbers of European civil servants, workers in the finance sector, contractors, building companies etc etc