I have lived in the East Midlands for four years. Initially I found the people open and welcoming. All that changed in the run up to the referendum. Walking through the local town centre I walked past a UKIP ‘Vote Leave’ table run by a couple of pensioners. An old man offered me a leaflet,...
Was doing temporary work during the referendum (temping from November 2011 to January 2017, no have a permanent job again, albeit not that well paid). Had started a temp assignment just before the referendum which was supposed to be for 3 months. The day after the referendum, the boss turns up in the office and...
I'm originally from the Isle of Wight, joined the Army in 1975 when the troubles in Northern Ireland meant I could not travel in uniform and had to check under my car before every journey. The biggest threat to peace though was from the Soviet bloc, I trained and prepared to defend my country and...
I live in Wales. Swansea, to be precise. My ancestors were oystermen, as far back as the 1700s. I am writing a book and a play about these ancestors, and campaigning to stop Brexit. "But Wales voted Leave." I know. I hear it every day. However, scrutiny of the figures shows that the overall percentage...
On the evening of 23rd June 2016 I had to work late. My vote had been cast and whilst nothing in life is certain I was happy that as a nation we wouldn't be foolish enough to vote to leave the European Union. For background I'm from Northern Ireland where I am self-employed, supplying unique hi...
"In 1998 I met, later married, a Dutchman living in the UK. The same year my British parents exercised their freedom of movement to relocate to France. My sister joined my parents in France in 2009. I had a pan European family. #BrexitIsPersonal During the EU referendum campaign my Dutch husband became depressed, he felt...
Hi. I'm Tim from Kingston in South West London. If you spend time on Twitter and are interested in brexit, you probably see me popping up in your timeline every now and then as @MaldenSaboteur, an angry anti-brexit cat in a hat (she's actually called Cleo) and prolific retweeter of the pro-EU community. I am...
As I am building a digital monument for the Dutch resistance during WW 2, I have been working for the last past 11 months on a project concerning the illegal press. No matter how big or how small the setup was organised, all of these people undertook the same risk of being caught and executed...
I lost my wife to Twitter. Oh yes, she is still there, I can see her, I can talk to her but she is not listening. She has been sucked into this big hole called Brexit and she is fighting with all her might to get out of this bloody mess. Not only her mess,...
"Get over it, you lost!", is the refrain of many a Leave supporter. But, if we're all being honest with one another, it's just not that simple. It never was. Brexit, like no other political event in the UK since the war, is not a simple binary choice; even if the Conservative government, propped up...