It is hard to admit being wrong. But Brexit voters are doing so in droves – Having been grossly misled in the referendum, Britons’ anger is mounting as the reality of our plight becomes clear
It is hard to admit being wrong. But Brexit voters are doing so in droves – Having been grossly misled in the referendum, Britons’ anger is mounting as the reality of our plight becomes clear
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If people were too dense to realise that they were being systematically lied to then that’s their burden to live with. And the rest of us will just have to carry on!
I’ll belive it when we get Times articles on this, but the Guardian has an article on this every a few times a week right now.
I can spot a Sunday William Keegan article from just the headline now
Its pretty much been the same article each week for 6 years now
If you read it in a Shakespearean tragedy voice its much more entertaining
Are they?
Or are they continuing to whine like they did with Brexit?
I have yet to see a single person who has actually learnt anything about national or international economics, or national financing.
A lot of boomers have however died off and 5 years of what were then 13 year olds have become eligible to vote. No one learnt anything there however.
Don’t mistake whining with learning, because people who had learnt wouldn’t be voting for the same old right wing/centre right ideologies as they always have.
Brexit was about the lust for deregulation above everything.
Brexit was sypposed to protect the rich at the expense of everyone else. It worked as designed. The cap doffers should be ecstatic.
Who could possibly have expected such men of *obviously* good character like Boris Johnson or Nigel Farage to have been in the least untruthful.
Just look at them. Aren’t those the most honest faces?
You can see how people feel deceived.
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The stupid dumb fucks.
Austerity however was NOT a lie, and most of the country were NOT taken in by it.
(Actually most were taken in by it and refuse to admit so)
Brexit didn’t work cause the immagrunts are now stealing muh nhs money GRRR
If only there has been people at the time telling these voters they were being lied to . . .
Having chosen to ignore all the warnings and common sense in favour of shit eating grins and jingoistic exceptionalism would be more accurate. Grossly mislead is a grossly misleading characterization of what they were.
Even my father-in-law admitted to my husband and myself that Brexit was probably a big mistake. We were floored because he’s been defending Brexit for years until last weekend! F**king typical. I think it’s only my dad left thinking Brexit was and still is a good idea.
I got my boss to admit he regretted voting Leave.
He still thinks we are better out than in. I left the conversation because it would have just turned into an argument and if you end up arguing you will never change anybodies entrenched beliefs.
I think it’s an exercise in saving face – no one likes admitting they are wholly and totally wrong, it’s easier to admit to being wrong in some part but shift the burden of embarrassment and losing face to another entity.
We need to be brave and face those who lied to us and make sure they never touch office ever again.
Misled by who though? Renowned self-serving compulsive liars?
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We are now down approximately 2000 million pounds down per week, thanks to Brexit. We were promised an extra 350 million per week for the NHS, but we are down 2000 million – per week. It’s fucking insane.
> Today there is an air of sadness about the way the UK has inflicted upon itself the role of sick man of Europe.
The UK entered the EU as the sick man of Europe and now that it has left the EU it returns to being the sick man of Europe.
It still boggles my mind that people don’t understand that the EU is what made the UK an economic powerhouse and without it it will decline to nothing once again.
It might take a few years but the UK will eventually drop out of every ‘Top 10’ list once again.
Still waiting to meet someone who has changed their minds
If they really are starting to realise they were wrong to destroy the county and the futures of many generations, I certainly won’t be forgiving them.
I don’t know many people who’ve admitted they were wrong about Brexit.
I know a few people who are trying to claim they weren’t given the right information at the time.
I know more who are pretending they didn’t vote for it but were in favour of it at the time…
I try to keep my smugness about that on here where it’s anonymous. I need to vent but I don’t want to risk pushing people back towards it, we may need them when we inevitably have another bloody vote on this in the next 10-15 years.
Yet Starmer is all “you were right all along, I was wrong, I’m going take back control and make brexit work”.
Country was fucked before brexit. Its just worse now!
People are realising they’re wrong but have been radicalised towards xenophobic sentiment and other misinformation led ideological positions regardless, and many are simply coming to the bizarre conclusion that greater extremism is the only solution to all their continued ills.
The future does not look bright.
I’d like to see Danny Boyle’s Olympic Opening Games Ceremony in 10 years! It will just be peasants eating ham sandwiches on their way to work at Sainsburys or an old age home.
The years of conservative rule have fucked everything up. The economy is fucked. Law and order is fucked. The NHS is well and truly fucked. The social fabric of the UK is fucked. Education is fucked. The Union is fucked. There is nothing they haven’t touched and despoiled with their nasty grasping degenerate exploitative hands. The entire weight of the massed intellect of British conservatism wouldn’t overburden a thimble. The contempt and anger I feel at the selfish stupid personality disordered entitled who have ruined one of the world’s best places to live cannot possibly be expressed in a few vitriolic sentences. What utter cunts.
We remainers are laughing so hard we are crying…..or is that just crying.
I still have leaver friends that will not admit it‘s a fucking disaster.
A simple majority-rules referendum on something so massively consequential and complex was the most insane thing this country has ever done.
It’s pretty clear that Britain has been under attack from within. The kremlin’s saboteurs on the right are the only people satisfied with the outcome.
Until the fuckwits stop being suckered by media, nothing will change.
WMD’s now Brexit, take a fucking HINT.
Judging by the amount of times Iv heard the line “every politician lies” what on earth made anyone think anything being said about Brexit by any member of the Tory party was true is beyond me.
Half the population of this country only have themselves to blame while the other half are picking up the pieces.
Left or right they all full of shite and the EU wasn’t going to stop any of it.
The morning after the vote they said “most if what we said was false” I’m paraphrasing but it wasn’t far off.
In that moment, the ballot should have been null and void and the perpetrators (i call them that because they deliberately and wantonly misled the public) should’ve been run out of office never to see the inside of Parliament ever again.
But instead they got richer, we got poorer and now they can make up whatever rules they please without fear of reprisal.
I’m torn between saying ‘good for them because admitting being wrong and changing your mind are hard to do’, and ‘thanks ex-leave voters. Now how are you going to fix this mess you got us into?’. Because for me the main issue is that it’s wrecked the country. Brexit is having actual measurable impact on my and others lives and there been no recognition of that.