Jamie Carragher blames Brexit for ‘divisive’ feeling in Britain
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/jamie-carragher-brexit-divisive-5HjdGWg_2/
by tylerthe-theatre
Jamie Carragher blames Brexit for ‘divisive’ feeling in Britain
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/jamie-carragher-brexit-divisive-5HjdGWg_2/
by tylerthe-theatre
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Where he comes from they always just voted labour, doesn’t matter what labour is as long as it says labour they vote for them
Never understood why people always vote for someone purely because that’s what people in my family/area have always done. Think for yourself!
Edit because people think I’m talking about the headline only:
He states in the article that “I will be supportive of anybody who leads the Labour Party because where I come from we vote Labour and that will always be the case,”
I’m not saying it’s wrong to vote for Labour or any other party, but to vote in a way purely because that’s what you’ve always done/been told to do is showing a lack of independent/critical thought.
Yes, it’s nothing to do with the pushing of explicitly divisive social policy, definitely not
Scotland had the independence referendum in 2014 which was a lot more divisive- it didn’t tear Scotland apart…
Division is caused by bad actors, social media and populism.
So do l, although the Brexshiters were lied to (now proved) they should have had more sense.
He believes whatever he’s told, or no more tv appearances
Didn’t he spit on a 14 year old girl because he lost a football match?
‘Former footballer is idiot’ is not exactly breaking news
Brexit is clearly populist garbage, but plenty of other countries have powerful socio-economic divides without having inflicted any thing like ‘Brexit’.
Those divisions started decades ago, and since the establish political class didnt offer any kind of solution, it’s no surprise that charlatans flocked to Brexit as an alternative.
Makes no sense to keep up the charade that Brexit is worth perpetuating, but getting rid of Brexit isnt going to be a silver bullet that curves ‘division’ either.
I think that MPs should be football pundits and football pundits should shut the fuck up. He is right though.
People were divisive before Brexit, hence why Brexit became a thing.
Nothing to do with the amount of people being let in and lack of integration?
Ah, another paid Footballer to say something from the BBC
He’s not wrong but it’s not the only reason. We’re paying the legacy of the austerity cuts after the 2008 crash and brexit has compounded them.
Many of those cuts have never been reversed and so we now have a generation of people who’ve never known prosperity and their parents who feel let down that they couldn’t rise out of the cycle of low pay, high bills, ever declining public services (library closed, swimming pool closed, health service creaking, childcare and education cuts etc).
And they’re all angry and being conned about whose fault it is.
I’ll always maintain that Brexit wasn’t something we should’ve been voting on. Too big and nuanced of a decision
Really? Maybe it has something to do with children being slaughtered at a dance party? Thousands of English girls being groomed and sexually exploited? The Manchester Arena bombing? The muslim hatred of Jews?
No, it’s Brexit, definitely Brexit!
Well the liars that hyped it up,and forced it through with no plan sure. It became so tribal.
Yeah he’s right, prior to Brexit I was deeply angry and cynnical at the UK for strong personal reasons but a faint unstated hope that we could do better.
Post Brexit I have a strong generalised hatred for everything British and a putrid hatred of the country and it’s entire institutions and particularly the elderly. I remember distinctly begin called a “Entitled liberal elite” for arguing for economic stability and against the racist harassment of one of my friends. By an elderly landlord neighbour who owned two homes, whereas I was on 24k a year.
post 2023 I have such anger and hatred for this place I’m aware I literally need therapy, it’s hard for me to veil it, Conservatives were ultimately successful in convincing me that “there is no such thing as society” which has altered my political outlook.
Point is it drove a schism but I’m unsure if it would be enough to rejoin at this point to mend the schism the wound that was ripped open has only been made deeper.
Britain is divided because we are lied to be repeated governments, votes are bought and imported at the expense of our future.
Brexit is a symptom of this
What about all of the other countries going through the same problems and feeling divisive? Brexit is just a deflection.
Brexit … the cause of, and solution to all life’s problems
It’s really not though. The idea that without Brexit we’d all be getting a long is nonsense. There was the worse riots/ looting in generations back in 2011. Somehow that’s been written out of the narrative. The rise of the BNP in the 00s… There’s populist/ hard right movements all over Europe… Labour only won about 35% of the vote in 2005. The Tories only won about 36% of the vote in 2010. People moving away from mainstream politics has been happening for a long time. Traditional Labour communities falling out of love with Labour has been going on for decades. Turnout in traditional Labour areas in 2001 was historically low. White working class apathy started long before 2016.
Another Multi millionaire Footballer talking bollocks, Stick to Football Jamie, you do actually know about that
It’s not the only reason but certainly gave the division a boost.
I blame social media personally. Fake headlines designed to stir up hatred and division, algorithms that push the same narrative
Still confuses me why people voted for something they didn’t have a full understanding about.
Now these same people want to vote Farage in, you know the same person who thought Brexit was great
Intense anti-immigration sentiment exists across the continent. Blaming it on Brexit is typical little Englander solipsism for whom anything outside of our (or America’s) borders is a complete mystery.
Can anyone really take this disgusting creature seriously? That outrageous foul spitting incident should have been enough to consign him to the shadows.
Sure it’s not the stabbings, killing, rapes, crime, violence, 2 tier justice, the insane handouts and support given to those that arrrive en masse and illegaly.
Whilst the rest of us are called the problem, and swindled for ever more tax to pay for the stupid experiment.
Wasn’t it the divisive attitude that tipped Britain into Brexit?
Wow, it is 2025, and somebody noticed that Brexit is divisive.
How did they not notice that in 2016?
Social Media is also being manipulated to drive hatred and anger.
Genuinely feel people are more openly ignorant and racist now
Well, he isn’t wrong.
Nearly 10 years on and we’re economically fucked. And no one tell me that the B word has nothing to do with it.
EEC membership would be a start to repair the untold damage – but that in itself is not going to happen any time soon.
He knows very little about football, he k Les even less about politics
He is an expert however at spitting at kids
It’s a game of two halves. That’s what he should stick to!!
This is a non argument because clearly the country was already divided before brexit? Otherwise the vote wouldnt have been so tight.
Also, a similar thing is happening in so many countries. All of europe is becoming more divided, so is America, and even countries like Japan.
If EU countries are like this, why is brexit to blame?
Whether or not you think Brexit was a good thing or not, it is undeniable such a profound split within the country has had a psychological impact on us.
Putin’s loving it.
Same man that wore a shirt In support of Suarez during his ban for racism… This “division” has been going on before brexit mate.
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