The new Brexit 50p coin

[MrGongGong]

Exactly! .We'll be dong precisely the same, including a bonfire, atop of which will be a number of E.U. symbols (don't call them flags, please!) ..........We won! Get over it, move on, put the Brexit/Remain argument behind you and get real!

Grow up
How about I come round your house, shit on the carpet and then trash your garden and all the things you have been working on for years
then YOU can "get over it"

"real"

I've just returned from a spell away and the UK is an international laughing stock ........

Throwing away our freedom of movement is a disaster for musicians but I guess you don't really give a toss about music either

[kernelbogey]

...I could have kicked myself becauseI thought of several clever replies, but only as I was walking home....

Esprit d'escalier...
Treppenhumor...

[Pulcinella]

The Treasury is not actually producing that many of these obnoxious coins.
Is it ten million?
If a million Rejoiners hoarded about £5 worth of them each, they might rapidly go out of circulation.
Not a bad price to pay in comparison to what lies ahead.

[ahinton]

The Treasury is not actually producing that many of these obnoxious coins.
Is it ten million?

I believe that it's barely one-third of that.

A stupid, pointless and money-wasting exercise if ever there was one.

[Barbirollians]

Exactly! .We'll be dong precisely the same, including a bonfire, atop of which will be a number of E.U. symbols (don't call them flags, please!) ..........We won! Get over it, move on, put the Brexit/Remain argument behind you and get real!

Not Beef Oven again !

[Cockney Sparrow]

50p pieces - a token response feeding their carpet chewing Brexit constituency. One of a few things they can do to mark the occasion - aside from turning over Parliament Square for the evening. Surprised no move amongst remainers to Sardine it....... but then, remainers are not that nasty and aggressive. But let them have their moment.

Also, remember they say they need to move to unite the country (all of us need to follow that aspiration, they say).

50p pieces are one thing, really delivering on all those promises is another. I'll be interested to see the reality of achievement in 4 years and 10 months time..... and how united we have become.

[Cockney Sparrow]

Not Beef Oven again !

I regret his departure. Not difficult to filter out** the inflammatory political stance - for me, although I realise it grated mightily with some members - and probably added to our moderators workload. But he had interesting contributions as to music.

**I don't find it difficult to filter out pedantry and punning either - when that sets in, I come back to the thread several pages on...... and see if anything useful is happening.

[subcontrabass]

I believe that it's barely one-third of that.

3 million today. 7 million later.

[LMcD]

But you'll miss Our Great Liar's speech to the nation...

Don't worry, it'll be on iPlayer - probably for ever!

[Felix the Gnat]

I believe that it's barely one-third of that.

A stupid, pointless and money-wasting exercise if ever there was one.

I shall refuse them in my change in convenience stores. If they insist, I will leave 50p out of pocket. A small price to pay for a protest that will resonate throughout the community (people who witness this stance against the onslaught of the right, will undoubtably mention it to their families at home and friends in pubs, clubs, bars, the local speak-easy, McDonalds, synagogues, churches and mosques etc).

[Felix the Gnat]

Grow up
How about I come round your house, shit on the carpet and then trash your garden and all the things you have been working on for years
then YOU can "get over it"

"real"

I've just returned from a spell away and the UK is an international laughing stock ........

Throwing away our freedom of movement is a disaster for musicians but I guess you don't really give a toss about music either

My friend has just come back from Suriname and he said even there they were laughing at us for what we've done. He said that some people even pointed at him in the street and laughed when they realised he's British.

And about freedom of movement, people have short memories. Before we were a member of the EU, in 1967, Daevid Allen was refused entry into Britain from France. He had to remain in France and they got the benefit of his talent. We lost out. THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN A LOT

[pastoralguy]

But you'll miss Our Great Liar's speech to the nation...

I've got to the stage that I turn the TV off when that joker appears! I honestly never thought I'd see the day when I'd welcome back Thatcher!

[gurnemanz]

My friend has just come back from Suriname and he said even there they were laughing at us for what we've done. He said that some people even pointed at him in the street and laughed when they realised he's British.

It infuriates me when I go to Germany (often) that I have to spend half the time trying to explain the current state of Britain. Most Germans are sympathetic to UK and feel genuine remorse that they are losing an EU friend. They show pity, bafflement and dismay, pointing out that Germany trades perfectly happily with rest of the world from within EU.

One of the saddest recent news items for me was about the woman in Berlin whose hitherto rather successful small shop selling British products is now in decline. The Union Jack used to be a selling point but is now too negatively linked with Farage-style English nationalism. She's planning to move into selling Scottish and Irish stuff.

My wife became British when we married in 1975 and, being permanently resident in UK, was happy to let her German passport lapse when it expired. After being told she wasn't European any more she applied for German citizenship - as did our two children, who have never lived in Germany but are bilingual and feel half German. As of 11pm I shall be the only non-European in our family. I shall be more likely to be crying into my soup than drinking bubbly.

[DracoM]

Touching tale. Like mourning ahead.

[Felix the Gnat]

A very sad story. At least you were European for a while - your memories can't be taken away from you by BJ, Farage, Rowan Atkinson and others, nor wiped out by this coin of hatred.