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[thisbluespirit]

Sorry about all the political posts yesterday, when I usually avoid such things in fannish spaces, but yesterday was exceptional. It's not every day you wake up to find out that not only have we voted to leave the EU, but that the PM has resigned, the Opposition are calling for a vote of no confidence in their leader, Scotland and Ireland are making plans to leave the UK and the economy has crashed. It's a shock. I feel like a small alien walking around in my north east town full of flags hanging out of houses, and I'm British. (I think. It's a bit hard to tell suddenly.) (I was trying to remind myself it might be for Euro 2016, but they weren't there last time, and then extra Union Jacks appeared. Oh, the irony.)

The point of this post being really, I'm sorry! Fannishness and cheer will now resume (I hope) while my country takes a few weeks/months/years to figure out what comes next (politics is mostly v slow) and hopefully we'll all work to make things get better. And I have a hurt/comfort bingo table to work on while the country falls apart, which seems vaguely appropriate...

But for the moment: I just don't know or recognise my country any more. I don't know what it is or will be. I didn't know I could feel like that. It's unhelpful, but it's true. What may come may be good, but for today I am very sad - for me and for everybody else who didn't want this, especially those who didn't even get a say and who have now been made to feel afraid and unwanted here. <<♥>>

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[justice-turtle.livejournal.com]

Wait'll November. ;P *hugs* I really don't mean to sound like I'm making light, I'm sorry. I just... your last paragraph. "I didn't know I could feel like that." It's been so, so, so goddamn long since baby!Turtle could have written those words, and I just -- I'm scared that you'll have to get used to feeling like that, and I hate that it's any kind of a possibility, and blaaaaaah. :P The world is a terrifying place, everybody being xenophobic and sensible people feeling helpless, I don't LIKE it. *hugs you some more* Sorry, I don't mean to dump on you, I just... it's a hell of a thing. O_O

[thisbluespirit]

*hugs back* I know; I hope you don't vote Trump in! For your and all ours sakes!

But just right now, even the xenophobia of the campaign that brought this in pales into nothing compared to the potential ramifications. At the moment we're in a cushioned limbo and things could go any way at all, but we literally broke the country yesterday and even if that happily proves temporary, even if we can make things better again, there will be more economic hardship in the short-term at the very least and probably not only for the UK. We could have thrown away any hope of prosperity for generations. It is both sobering and terrifying to witness - and there wasn't even any good reason for it. Nobody needed to have this Referendum now, but we did.