Anger

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Dear Brexiters,

I hope you enjoy your blue passports and your non-bonging bell. I hope it was worth costing the economy more in 5 years of wrangling over the referendum result than we spent on EU membership in nearly 5 decades. I hope it was worth gambling the NHS, their ability to hire enough staff to provide safe care and to negotiate good prices for medicines.

I hope you are pleased at driving away young, economically active Europeans and bringing back a bunch of retired British people. When you can't find a plumber or a care worker, I hope you find satisfaction in knowing that at least no British person was done out of a job by a ~foreigner~.

Extra-special fuck you to lexit ideologues who decided that only the 'elites' need freedom of movement, only 'capitalists' will suffer in a generational recession, and only 'the bourgeois' will lose their supposedly cushy jobs and feel the effects of unpicking labour rights. You flirted with fascism as an 'alternative to the neo-liberal consensus', and you are still hoping that entrenching more people in worse poverty will somehow magically lead to socialism.

I hope it was worth betraying Scotland, Northern Ireland, Gibraltar, the Falklands, London and the entire younger generation. I hope it was worth the harm and misery caused to immigrants, brown people and three million of our fellow European citizens. And the fear and loss caused to most of my friends and me.

You won. You got your "sovereignty". I hope it chokes you.

(If you want a somber, informed analysis, try nwhyte's Reflections on Brexit day. The above is just an existential scream, really.)

Comments

[silveradept]

If there were some way of making all of them understand exactly what they've done and requiring them to feel the full consequences of it, without hurting any of the people who didn't want this to happen, I hope they all have that delightful experience.