My opinion hasn’t changed about the people themselves, more the people running it clearly not knowing what the fuck they’re doing and then thinking they have a better hand than do with negotiations.
The other half already had such a low opinion it couldn’t have gotten worse
I’m impressed that many people had a lowerable opinion
Brexit is all about identity. It’s fundamentally anti-immigration/British exceptionalism and if I was to be very cynical I would say it played to a deep-rooted mistrust of immigrants that exists there. Relatives of mine lived in England during the 70s and 80s and they came back using certain language they never would have used before then. If Irexit ever happens it will be because of the same thing, a mistrust of immigrants and blaming them for our country’s problems, which is a very unintelligent way of looking at the world, and has always led to trouble throughout history
Anyone who takes off the rose tinted glasses wouldn’t think much of the dominant culture in Britain for centuries. Racist, supremacist, sectarian, imperialist, and on and on.
Two things balance it for me: many ordinary Brits are as fine a people as you will meet. Their tragedy is to be bought in to a culture of class domination and a servility they don’t even recognize. The second thing is the genius of the RHS and the RNLI. If you ever get the chance to visit Wisley take it.
Brexit is an expression of an enterprising spirit central to their development. It’s a monumental gamble for deregulation as the way forward. They’ve sniffed an opportunity but exploiting it is dependent on hugely unpredictable variables. They’ve rolled the dice. We’ll know the answer in 40 years.
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Irish people just love a good Brit Bash and then give some vacous opinion on Brexit
I don’t know half of them half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of them half as well as they deserve.
I’ve never ever had anything against the British people, it is the establishment that I hate, and I blame them for Brexit too, not the democratic vote but the lies, deception and subsequent arrogance and lack of integrity.
It’s the British establishment not the people
Comparing england to America seems like the right choice.
Good news, British people! It turns out we *could* think less of your country after all!
I have no qualms about them leaving the EU tbh. Whether other countries in the EU think it’s a good idea or not isn’t of much consequence – the British people made a decision to leave and that’s their prerogative. Good for them.
My issue is with the upper echelons of the establishment. Implementing COVID restrictions right after a scandal involving the prime minister hosting a party is a dick move. Fair play to the backbenchers for calling it out.
*Even less
I spend less time thinking about Britain
BS already had a very low opinion 😴
England, sure.
But do Scotland and Wales really deserve the same fate?
Keep in mind Scotland hates the Tories and Brexit as much as we do, and is being held hostage and having their wishes ignored by the terrible Union and an incompetent Westminster government.
Brexit has now been de-Frosted
Since brexit, I have gone from benign historical misgivings, to fervant “britannia delenda est” anger. The british nationalism and national insecurity is, as always, a threat to us all on this island.
Yes. For example:
Bye bye, Amazon.co.uk, you are useless now.
Hello Amazon.de
And that’s saying something
I mean I thought we had to go to war if we wanted to ruin them but it turns out they just did it themselves.
I can’t imagine being so buttmad you care about another country deciding to leave your trading bloc.
Where the fuck do they get their ideas for their polls? They must have a massive barrel at their offices.
I’d say the Brits are shitting themselves
My brother still lives at home in the North and his opinion of the Uk hasn’t changed at all and he voted for Brexit, because he “knew it would be a shit show for them”!
I mean, yeah.
I don’t think of them at all.
Only 63%?
I couldn’t think any lower of them before brexit
Europe as a whole has to decide what it wants to be. The hodgepodge of Confederation that the EU currently is is not sustainable. The UK as a historic world power did not want to be 1 of 27 members of a “U.S.E.” and said “we are out.” At a certain level I can respect that. Sovereignty means something in a nation-state and the EU was blurring those lines.
But Britain in turn did not understand what they were giving up by leaving the Union, and in true English arrogance failed to realize that due to Northern Ireland they need the EU more so than other nations unless they are willing to give up Northern Ireland. There was a way for Brexit to happen… but the heirs of those that bungled the destruction of the Empire were not the leaders of that moment.
Because they were held in such high regard before Brexit…
I’m surprised there’s only a little over half of us that have a lower opinion of them considering how they’ve conducted themselves.
And rightly so.
How low can it go?
I didn’t think much about them before either
Tbh before brexit I feel the younger Irish never quite got the older generations issues with the English, but brexit shone a light at how arrogant the English can be.
I’m sure they’re devo
just annoyed that i cant buy useless shit from amazon anymore, probably for the best tho
Since teaching there I couldn’t think any less
It was hard to have a lower opinion but they managed it. there is nothing to be proud of in the last 10 years coming from the UK.
It was already a pretty low bar.
But Britain has made such a show of themselves over the last 5 years that their reputation is in tatters would be a more accurate headline.
Combine that with the jingoistic nature of their current government insisting Britain should be proud of shit any sensible person would be outright ashamed to have associated with them and its a recipe for disaster.
Kind of stupid survey. We dont agree with brexit and we think (rightly in my view,) that Johnson has lied and been disingenuous at every stop. So of course a majority thinks less
Contemplating taking measures to starve us all in order to gain merely a bargaining chip with the EU says it all really.
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Meh.
My opinion hasn’t changed about the people themselves, more the people running it clearly not knowing what the fuck they’re doing and then thinking they have a better hand than do with negotiations.
The other half already had such a low opinion it couldn’t have gotten worse
I’m impressed that many people had a lowerable opinion
Brexit is all about identity. It’s fundamentally anti-immigration/British exceptionalism and if I was to be very cynical I would say it played to a deep-rooted mistrust of immigrants that exists there. Relatives of mine lived in England during the 70s and 80s and they came back using certain language they never would have used before then. If Irexit ever happens it will be because of the same thing, a mistrust of immigrants and blaming them for our country’s problems, which is a very unintelligent way of looking at the world, and has always led to trouble throughout history
Anyone who takes off the rose tinted glasses wouldn’t think much of the dominant culture in Britain for centuries. Racist, supremacist, sectarian, imperialist, and on and on.
Two things balance it for me: many ordinary Brits are as fine a people as you will meet. Their tragedy is to be bought in to a culture of class domination and a servility they don’t even recognize. The second thing is the genius of the RHS and the RNLI. If you ever get the chance to visit Wisley take it.
Brexit is an expression of an enterprising spirit central to their development. It’s a monumental gamble for deregulation as the way forward. They’ve sniffed an opportunity but exploiting it is dependent on hugely unpredictable variables. They’ve rolled the dice. We’ll know the answer in 40 years.
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Irish people just love a good Brit Bash and then give some vacous opinion on Brexit
I don’t know half of them half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of them half as well as they deserve.
I’ve never ever had anything against the British people, it is the establishment that I hate, and I blame them for Brexit too, not the democratic vote but the lies, deception and subsequent arrogance and lack of integrity.
It’s the British establishment not the people
Comparing england to America seems like the right choice.
Good news, British people! It turns out we *could* think less of your country after all!
I have no qualms about them leaving the EU tbh. Whether other countries in the EU think it’s a good idea or not isn’t of much consequence – the British people made a decision to leave and that’s their prerogative. Good for them.
My issue is with the upper echelons of the establishment. Implementing COVID restrictions right after a scandal involving the prime minister hosting a party is a dick move. Fair play to the backbenchers for calling it out.
*Even less
I spend less time thinking about Britain
BS already had a very low opinion 😴
England, sure.
But do Scotland and Wales really deserve the same fate?
Keep in mind Scotland hates the Tories and Brexit as much as we do, and is being held hostage and having their wishes ignored by the terrible Union and an incompetent Westminster government.
Brexit has now been de-Frosted
Since brexit, I have gone from benign historical misgivings, to fervant “britannia delenda est” anger. The british nationalism and national insecurity is, as always, a threat to us all on this island.
Yes. For example:
Bye bye, Amazon.co.uk, you are useless now.
Hello Amazon.de
And that’s saying something
I mean I thought we had to go to war if we wanted to ruin them but it turns out they just did it themselves.
I can’t imagine being so buttmad you care about another country deciding to leave your trading bloc.
Where the fuck do they get their ideas for their polls? They must have a massive barrel at their offices.
I’d say the Brits are shitting themselves
My brother still lives at home in the North and his opinion of the Uk hasn’t changed at all and he voted for Brexit, because he “knew it would be a shit show for them”!
I mean, yeah.
I don’t think of them at all.
Only 63%?
I couldn’t think any lower of them before brexit
Europe as a whole has to decide what it wants to be. The hodgepodge of Confederation that the EU currently is is not sustainable. The UK as a historic world power did not want to be 1 of 27 members of a “U.S.E.” and said “we are out.” At a certain level I can respect that. Sovereignty means something in a nation-state and the EU was blurring those lines.
But Britain in turn did not understand what they were giving up by leaving the Union, and in true English arrogance failed to realize that due to Northern Ireland they need the EU more so than other nations unless they are willing to give up Northern Ireland. There was a way for Brexit to happen… but the heirs of those that bungled the destruction of the Empire were not the leaders of that moment.
Because they were held in such high regard before Brexit…
I’m surprised there’s only a little over half of us that have a lower opinion of them considering how they’ve conducted themselves.
And rightly so.
How low can it go?
I didn’t think much about them before either
Tbh before brexit I feel the younger Irish never quite got the older generations issues with the English, but brexit shone a light at how arrogant the English can be.
I’m sure they’re devo
just annoyed that i cant buy useless shit from amazon anymore, probably for the best tho
Since teaching there I couldn’t think any less
It was hard to have a lower opinion but they managed it. there is nothing to be proud of in the last 10 years coming from the UK.
It was already a pretty low bar.
But Britain has made such a show of themselves over the last 5 years that their reputation is in tatters would be a more accurate headline.
Combine that with the jingoistic nature of their current government insisting Britain should be proud of shit any sensible person would be outright ashamed to have associated with them and its a recipe for disaster.
Kind of stupid survey. We dont agree with brexit and we think (rightly in my view,) that Johnson has lied and been disingenuous at every stop. So of course a majority thinks less
Contemplating taking measures to starve us all in order to gain merely a bargaining chip with the EU says it all really.