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Quotes About Brexit

The impact of Brexit is likely to be slow and incremental, hardly the sudden transformation that some Leave voters wanted. Immigrants will not disappear, and manufacturing will not immediately return to northern-English cities - quite the contrary.
~ Anne Applebaum
I am standing in solidarity with decent Remain voters who respected the rules and accepted the result and are as appalled by Parliament's undemocratic antics as the most ardent Brexiteer.
~ Claire Fox
I will always believe that my vote, and the votes of my Lib Dem colleagues, are the best thing I can do to save this country from a no-deal Brexit and save it from Boris Johnson.
~ Layla Moran
When it comes to something like Brexit, I am part of the liberal-media London bubble, and so, to me, voting to leave was madness. My perspective was that it was cutting off your nose to spite your face.
~ Charlie Brooker
Brexit has certainly exposed an ugly underbelly of our democracy. It is clear to me that we must ensure that the many Leave voting communities must never be left behind again.
~ Layla Moran
Loose talk about no deal has given credibility to the simplistic slogans of the Brexit party and resulted in millions voting for them.
~ David Gauke
If Parliament is voting overwhelmingly against leaving the European Union without a deal but is voting in favour of a softer Brexit, then I don't think it's sustainable to ignore Parliament's position and therefore leave without a deal.
~ David Gauke
It looks like caring for the most vulnerable in our society could be yet another casualty of Brexit, with over-stretched and potentially unsafe care services and a reduction in female employment another unforeseen consequence.
~ Luciana Berger
If only Brexit would go away. It sucks the political oxygen away from the issues we should all be discussing: like low wages, insecure jobs and the housing crisis.
~ Owen Jones
It's time to wake up to the fact that being part of the single market is the best insurance policy we could have against a race to the bottom on wages, rights and protections that threaten British workers and that there is no 'jobs first Brexit' without it.
~ Wes Streeting
The Brexit thing to me just looks like a difference of opinion. I know things were lied about, but that should be a wake-up call to get all the information before you vote about something. Educate yourself.
~ M. Shadows
One might have thought that Brexit would be a wake-up call for the American media. Yet, just as in the U.K. referendum, 'Russia' became the buzzword in the U.S. election that the political and media establishments thought would scare people into voting for the status quo.
~ Margarita Simonyan
On the night of Brexit, while some people were celebrating and others were having wakes, I stayed in and played Beethoven, his quartets mainly, into the small hours of the morning.
~ Sheila Hancock
Because Scotland and Northern Ireland want to remain part of the E.U., there is the quite real possibility that Scotland and even Northern Ireland might now choose to go their own way on membership within the E.U. and the 'United Kingdom' would suddenly effectively be only England and Wales.
~ Peter Bergen
We need an approach to Brexit that will help us end austerity, rather than prolonging it. That is why I will continue to fight to keep Britain in the single market after we leave the European Union.
~ Wes Streeting
I've become a lot more politicised because of Brexit.
~ Daniel Mays
I want to stop Brexit.
~ Gavin Esler
If we have Brexit, we don't know what we will get.
~ Anna Soubry
The U.K. decided to leave the E.U. - Brexit means Brexit.
~ Jean-Claude Juncker
I'm not sure a pain-free Brexit is possible.
~ Nicky Morgan
Brexit will be good for the U.K.
~ John Redwood
Brexit is for the richest in our country: they can afford recessions.
~ George Osborne
If you look at it ideologically, I would say Brexit is not something that probably is good for the world.
~ Arundhati Bhattacharya
I've been clear that Brexit means Brexit.
~ Theresa May