Hard brexit here we come!

Little-Englanders can have their country back whilst the rest of the world leaves them behind. I've never been so relieved to have dual-citizenship.

The UK will not become Zimbabwe.

Better leave the UN and its undemocratic UDHR too.

Mate how are you still clinging to that pipedream about more funds for the NHS?

It ain't happening.

No, it wouldn't. Aside from services, our trading arrangements are near enough identical and as free as that of CETA and the Swiss EFTA deal. You underestimate, or deliberately forget, that we have substantial bargaining chips to secure border control whilst mimicking a CETA+ arrangement, most prominently the City of London. Watch the Eurozone obliterate itself if it doesn't secure access to it.

By the way, Liechtenstein are full members of the single market (EEA) but do not participate in FoM, so your argument about the 'fundamental principal' is rubbish, just dogmatic rhetoric. Declining a comprehensive FTA agreement with their most important export market over fake 'principals' would be ridiculous. The EU doesn't have to do this out of 'friendliness', it has to do it out of sheer survival instinct.

Right. So we want to end free movement of goods and labour but maintain the Common Travel Area with the Republic of Ireland (+ crown dependencies).

So anyone getting off a Paris-Dublin flight with a French passport can enter and mill about Ireland as they please - but can't cross the open and unpoliced border, and can't board an unpoliced domestic flight between NI and Great Britain. Is it expected that EU migrants abide by these rules out of their own free will?

Seriously, I can't for a second imagine how it's going to be enforced. A hard border? Republicans in NI will have a field day. Passport checks on arrival in Great Britain for flights originating in NI? Unionists will have a field day. UK passport checks in Ireland? Farcical. The recent politico-cultural rhetoric has got us thicker-skinned and less prone to being "offended", but let's not forget that people are still killing each other over the peace process.

You know, we don't mind. Because we are Europeans, members of the same community, and help our brothers out. If I were paying taxes in Germany I wouldn't mind some of my tax Euros going to poorer nations. And that's the difference between us and you lot - empathy, solidarity, good-will, you lack all of those things. And that's why it's good you're out and will suffer badly.

Ooo which other EU country are you a citizen of?

Germany

Interesting! German parent? Have you always been a German citizen or did you apply for it after Brexit?

Oh, do I see a softening in your stance there? Weren't you super convinced until a few months ago that Brexit was the best thing that ever happened to your country? Reality setting in?



You know, we don't mind. Because we are Europeans, members of the same community, and help our brothers out. If I were paying taxes in Germany I wouldn't mind some of my tax Euros going to poorer nations. And that's the difference between us and you lot - empathy, solidarity, good-will, you lack all of those things. And that's why it's good you're out and will suffer badly.

Yes. I've always had German citizenship but I hadn't renewed my German passport for years. First thing I did after the referendum results were announced was to book an appointment at the embassy!

Oh my, you lot will suffer so baaaaad... tax haven? More like banana republic.

Aw, you're lucky. I am a dual UK-Irish citizen but I'm paranoid Ireland will one day leave the EU too. A German passport is the gold standard, and it's so pretty.

You want to know how it affects me? Well for starters, Brexit is going to be absolutely crippling for scientific research into UK, the career I want to go into. This country's total lack of interest in helping young people makes my future prospects depressing enough without giving my chosen career a metaphorical kick in the groin. There are other countries in the world that have genuine respect for young people and those involved in research.

I've listened to democracy in this country. This country's democratic consensus appears to be one of anti-intellectualism where somebody's uninformed opinion is just as valued as the views of the experts, who have been censored by being branded as the 'filthy elite', whilst the genuine elite are continuously being given more and more power. It's too stupid for me, I've had enough - this referendum is just the tip of the iceberg. I feel absolutely no connection to the prevailing xenophobic views in this country. You can ridicule it as much as you want, but I don't feel welcome here and my European parent who has lived here for decades certainly doesn't.

I'm not trying to overturn democracy. I'm saying that the democratic decision is utterly moronic and I don't want to have to suffer just because the British population appears to have forgotten the purpose of the organ between their ears.

Could you please give me one reason why I shouldn't leave given that my future prospects would be significantly better elsewhere?

Well you're certainly in a better position than most! Although I thought you were Norwegian!