Sometimes you chose right, sometimes you chose wrong. They were warned, though. But they wanted to listen to the populists and the demagogues. I wonder when the Little Man learns that you should be afraid of those who whisper sweet words in your ear. Especially if they are better off than yourself. There is a reason for that, you see.
Love charts where numbers don’t add up to exactly 100
It’s funny to see reality gradually dawning on them. Nothing sudden, just a slow and painful realization as the nation collectively says “d’oh!”
-31%?! That’s a low indeed in my books..
And if they ever decide to rejoin they will never in a million years get the sweet deal they had before.
There is no way back to how it was.
Unfortunately that 31% includes the entire government and the majority of the UK print media. The UK isn’t great at public discourse.
Come on, don’t be so flimsy. You’ve got to believe in Brexit. It’s for the long haul, so 2 or 3 centuries.
Does it matter too much? Even if they rejoin they won’t have the benefits from before.
Will that change their opinion?
Why does it matter now? Statistic shows, young people didnt show up to vote. They had their chance. It also messed with the EU btw. But now, just lets move on, its done. Its democracy for the good and worse. Its over, both parts need to move on. The EU has, but people always talking and talking about the UK and Bre exit, its like the Ex who doesnt shut up about… Their ex. Its over, lets make the best of it.
Too fucking late.
Will any UK politician have balls enough to run on a clear re-join platform ?
That’s still pretty high if you ask me
It’s clear that Brexit has not been beneficial to the British economy as a whole. That being said, it doesn’t make sense to be an echo chamber that demeans leave voters as brainless.
The European Union, fundamentally, is a trade union; it allows for the free movement of goods, jobs, and capital across borders. This rewards areas in which it is less expensive for corporations to make things, and rewards consumers who buy these things for lower prices. It also rewards people from poorer countries who can work for higher wages in richer countries, and their rich country employers.
This isn’t to say that Britain was right to leave the EU; rather, it’s to say that, like with any major policy decision, there are winners and losers. Rather than expecting the working class Midlands to vote as if they are posh Londoners, we should at least be able to understand *why* they voted as they did.
Still way too high considering how it all went down.
That is a looot of denial.
Soooo… Vote to rejoin? 😉
It’s funny the most googled phrase in UK before voting on brexit was “what is EU?”
That’s still way too high.
Well, well, wellllll…
Guess it’s time for Rishi Sunak to call a referendum on rejoining the EU. #Brenter
/j kind of
UKIP (UK Independence Party) won 3.9 million votes in the 2015 General Election (the last before the EU Referendum) that was 12.6% of the vote.
So it’s not really worth getting excited about a poll showing nearly a third of the electorate are still happy about Brexit.
Also worth pointing out that a lot of Brexit voters aren’t happy about Brexit not because they didn’t want it or they want to reverse it but because the implementation of it has been shit.
Therefore “direct democracy” via referendum and without “filters” isn’t that great… a not so small amount of people are uneducated, and another not so small amount easy to manipulate.
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[Source](https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2023/05/22/most-britons-say-brexit-has-been-more-failure)
Sometimes you chose right, sometimes you chose wrong. They were warned, though. But they wanted to listen to the populists and the demagogues. I wonder when the Little Man learns that you should be afraid of those who whisper sweet words in your ear. Especially if they are better off than yourself. There is a reason for that, you see.
Love charts where numbers don’t add up to exactly 100
It’s funny to see reality gradually dawning on them. Nothing sudden, just a slow and painful realization as the nation collectively says “d’oh!”
-31%?! That’s a low indeed in my books..
And if they ever decide to rejoin they will never in a million years get the sweet deal they had before.
There is no way back to how it was.
Unfortunately that 31% includes the entire government and the majority of the UK print media. The UK isn’t great at public discourse.
Come on, don’t be so flimsy. You’ve got to believe in Brexit. It’s for the long haul, so 2 or 3 centuries.
Does it matter too much? Even if they rejoin they won’t have the benefits from before.
Will that change their opinion?
Why does it matter now? Statistic shows, young people didnt show up to vote. They had their chance. It also messed with the EU btw. But now, just lets move on, its done. Its democracy for the good and worse. Its over, both parts need to move on. The EU has, but people always talking and talking about the UK and Bre exit, its like the Ex who doesnt shut up about… Their ex. Its over, lets make the best of it.
Too fucking late.
Will any UK politician have balls enough to run on a clear re-join platform ?
That’s still pretty high if you ask me
It’s clear that Brexit has not been beneficial to the British economy as a whole. That being said, it doesn’t make sense to be an echo chamber that demeans leave voters as brainless.
The European Union, fundamentally, is a trade union; it allows for the free movement of goods, jobs, and capital across borders. This rewards areas in which it is less expensive for corporations to make things, and rewards consumers who buy these things for lower prices. It also rewards people from poorer countries who can work for higher wages in richer countries, and their rich country employers.
Who doesn’t it favour?
Working class citizens of wealthy nations, whose jobs are at risk of moving away, and who must now compete with foreign labour. That’s why [London](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36616028.amp), wealthy and international, voted so heavily to remain, and the Midlands (East and West) voted so heavily to leave. Predictably, [poorer](https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2019/03/18/is-brexit-a-contest-between-low-earning-leavers-and-high-earning-remainers/) Britons were more likely to vote leave.
This isn’t to say that Britain was right to leave the EU; rather, it’s to say that, like with any major policy decision, there are winners and losers. Rather than expecting the working class Midlands to vote as if they are posh Londoners, we should at least be able to understand *why* they voted as they did.
Still way too high considering how it all went down.
That is a looot of denial.
Soooo… Vote to rejoin? 😉
It’s funny the most googled phrase in UK before voting on brexit was “what is EU?”
That’s still way too high.
Well, well, wellllll…
Guess it’s time for Rishi Sunak to call a referendum on rejoining the EU. #Brenter
/j kind of
UKIP (UK Independence Party) won 3.9 million votes in the 2015 General Election (the last before the EU Referendum) that was 12.6% of the vote.
So it’s not really worth getting excited about a poll showing nearly a third of the electorate are still happy about Brexit.
Also worth pointing out that a lot of Brexit voters aren’t happy about Brexit not because they didn’t want it or they want to reverse it but because the implementation of it has been shit.
Therefore “direct democracy” via referendum and without “filters” isn’t that great… a not so small amount of people are uneducated, and another not so small amount easy to manipulate.