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Pokermonster
18 Jul 16 09:53
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Having narrowly lost out in the recent referendum, it is fascinating to observe so many voters for REMAIN seemingly wish for the absolute worst to now befall the country even though it would cause just as much grief for themselves as everyone else.

It is almost as if the chance to say "I told you so" in a fit of pique and high dudgeon would somehow be preferable to any possibility that the United Kingdom might actually become a safer and more prosperous place for us all as a result.

I suspect the world of psychology has a name for such paradoxical behaviour, but it suggests a form of madness to me.
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Report Foinavon July 18, 2016 10:06 AM BST
Anticipatory schadenfreude perhaps? Although that doesn't cover their being hurt too. Perhaps they don't mind so long as they can gloat.
Won't happen though, the UK, with or without Scotland) will prosper.
Report Foinavon July 18, 2016 10:07 AM BST
(with or without Scotland)
Report donny osmond July 18, 2016 10:17 AM BST
seems as if the brexiters are worried equally that it goes t1ts up and they were wrong

hey ho, lets get on with it
Report rogerthebutler July 18, 2016 10:25 AM BST
I'm a Brexiteer and I'm not worried about anything. I've not had a chance to be. Too busy acting as a counsellor for Remaindeniers who (and this is a direct quote from someone who up until this I had thought to be a sane and fully functioning adult) 'are needing to go through a grieving process for the death of an ideal'.

This really is the post-Diane endgame of over-emoting, isn't it?
Report donny osmond July 18, 2016 10:35 AM BST
i dont think all voters from each camp are having the same thoughts
as each other

but if cap fits
Report rogerthebutler July 18, 2016 10:46 AM BST
I think everyone needs to take a big glass of 'sit the fk down and shut the fk up', think more long-term and stop reacting to political events like it was some 'end of all days' sh1t that was happening instead of a democratic decision.
Report donny osmond July 18, 2016 10:58 AM BST
yes

people seem to have a desire to find lots of folk that will share their emotions

a communal outpouring of grief or a "lets have a go at that lot" group seems very popular
these days

brexit will take at least 2 years and we as a country can still feck it up or make it work
brilliantly

same as just about everything else, its not brexit or remain that is the issue, its making
brexit work !!!
Report brockville July 18, 2016 11:22 AM BST
Fair points Donny.

My strong view is I will make sure it works for my businesses post Brexit just as I made it work for them pre Brexit. It's called personal responsibility. If I can't make it work it will be my fault and know one else's.

The whingers, whiners, losers, workshy, chancers and those with a deep rooted sense of entitlement will continue to be the same whingers, whiners.....you get my drift.....post Brexit as they were pre- Brexit.
Report Foinavon July 18, 2016 11:24 AM BST
Wish there were more like you brockville, I really do.
Report wit-ham July 18, 2016 11:39 AM BST
Although i think nothing much will change for me now (maybe in 5 years due to tech advances)
I think we will have big opportunities for the young if willing to tack advantage of it
and not just sit back and go Pokemon hunting.
As for the young(16) wanting to vote, did you know anything about the world and how it works
at that age to be able to vote? not me
Report wit-ham July 18, 2016 11:41 AM BST
Teaching us oldies to spell is one

Take FFS
Report rob_dylan July 18, 2016 11:54 AM BST
Some great work on here from rogerthebutler.  Tempted to copy and paste it onto facebook, claim it as my own.
Report rogerthebutler July 18, 2016 11:59 AM BST
Feel free - they're just words
Report rob_dylan July 18, 2016 12:02 PM BST
Was thinking of something like "nothing more symptomatic of the facebook generation than...."

But I am thinking of the main culprits that I know of, and they are 50+.  Getting all bedwetty about the whole brexit thing and people's responses to terrorism etc.
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