Mary Killen Mary Killen

Brexit ruined our social lives. Can we now kiss and make up?

Remainers’ anger has subsided, but this is an uneasy peace

issue 01 February 2020

Brexit spoilt our social lives for three and a half years. I was in Austria in a house party of 20 Britons when the result came through. Sixteen of us had voted Remain (three while ‘holding their noses’) and four had voted Leave. The Leave voters stayed silent while the rest of us raged about the stupidity of the voting public.

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