we are leaving yipee

willsmadnan...thank you for injecting some humour into the situation. God knows it is needed! And yes I voted out....
Hope you enjoyed your walk

I don't think anyone should be trying to make light of this and there really is nothing funny about voting to go into a completely uncertain future - the only certainty being that we will be poorer. Oh, yes, and that young people are blaming me as a Baby Boomer for voting out when I voted in and many Brexiters are being very aggressive about their win and treating it like a football match. Definitely nothing to be lighthearted about, all depressing.

Cheer up for Chatham. I doubt if all is lost. Not really.

Judthepud2. I hope you dont mind me asking, but I would be interested in hearing more about this.
I have a relative who regularly crosses the border, but was not doing so when passports were needed.

For regulars for example, is it just a matter of waving the same passport in front of people, and just crossing, or were there long queues sometimes?

Pity us in N. Ireland. The majority of the country voted to remain. Now we are faced with the prospect of a return to border control and producing a passport to drive a few miles down the road

I think the key word is prospect, obieone, not what is happening at the moment.

Nanaandgrampy- the situation re large multinationals is totally different now than during the crisis. The whole of Europe was in the crisis at the same time. Now, when the UK leaves the EU, they alone in Europe will have to pay very high tarifs to export goods to Europe- which the other countries won't have to pay. Chalk/cheese totally.

Anya- about energy companies being French, German, etc - who would have us (hmm literally) over a barrel- I did try to warn about this.

We don't know about tariffs yet.

Obieone since Republic of Ireland and North of Ireland are both in EU no passports are currently needed. We just drive over the border. Only indication of change is that road signs indicate distance in kilometres.

There is concern that now we may have to return to the bad old days of border checks, long queues and smuggling over unapproved roads.

Thanks to the EU, travelling between Belfast and Dublin is now a joy and can be done much quicker on the lovely big motorway N1 built with EU money.

My intention to get an Irish passport is that I will still be an EU citizen and able to travel easily through all EU countries.

The only pain is that ROI is in the eurozone, so we have to keep a stash of euros for when travelling across the border. That won't change.

*passports are NOT currently needed....sorry!

Thanks.

jingl- of course we don't know the exact tarifs that will be levied. But do you really believe the rest of Europe will allow the UK to stop paying in, to stop free movement of people and still be able to trade with the for free?

Please ... sorry, don't want to be rude- but the mind does indeed boggle big time.