26 Jun 2016, 08:02
Coming from an area of the UK that voted alarmingly strongly to leave the EU I'm still in shock and very sad.
Locally we don't have many 'immigrants', the high streets are not full of 'Eastern European' shops, virtually all the improvements in this area have been backed by EU money, and politically there have never been any indications of support for candidates from the far right - so I am at a loss for the local majority wanting to leave.
Right now there seems to be a mixture of emotions - shock (mixed with sadness and anger) that the vote was to leave and slow realisation (by those who voted to leave) of the enormity of what leaving the EU actually means and the fact it will not suddenly result in their lives becoming wonderful, fields of flowers, new houses, free puppies and kittens, massive pay increases, jobs for all, a return to the glory days of Empire and all the other crap that the leave campaign where suggesting would happen.
I could go on, but this isn't really the forum and my blood pressure needs to return to normal
MJ
Locally we don't have many 'immigrants', the high streets are not full of 'Eastern European' shops, virtually all the improvements in this area have been backed by EU money, and politically there have never been any indications of support for candidates from the far right - so I am at a loss for the local majority wanting to leave.
Right now there seems to be a mixture of emotions - shock (mixed with sadness and anger) that the vote was to leave and slow realisation (by those who voted to leave) of the enormity of what leaving the EU actually means and the fact it will not suddenly result in their lives becoming wonderful, fields of flowers, new houses, free puppies and kittens, massive pay increases, jobs for all, a return to the glory days of Empire and all the other crap that the leave campaign where suggesting would happen.
I could go on, but this isn't really the forum and my blood pressure needs to return to normal
MJ