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The strangest thing about brexit is that all it took was one single 50% vote to exit. After untold time, money, effort and history put into joining Europe, you
by andrewstuart 3y ago
The strangest thing about brexit is that all it took was one single 50% vote to exit.
After untold time, money, effort and history put into joining Europe, you’d have thought that tearing the whole thing down would have required best of three votes to exit, or a supermajority, or a 12 month cooldown followed by a deciding second vote, or an “time apart” period before ending the relationship.
Instead all it took was some politicking and a vote and it’s over. Seems a huge flaw in the planning of joining Europe in the first place. I suppose they didn't anticipate brexit as a real possibility.
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoThe vote wasn't binding, and didn't specify exactly what a vote to leave even meant so there were multiple points at which a functional state could have course corrected.
- nly 3y agoThat's what people mean when they say don't "take things for granted". Peace, health, relationships. All can be destroyed in minutes.
- quartz 3y agoI remain flabbergasted that Brexit happened but wasn't the overwhelming victory of Boris Johnson & the conservative party at the end of 2019 basically a re-statement by the population that they wanted it? IIRC that was basically a single issue election after which Brexit was more or less fast-tracked without continued internal opposition. Up until that point there had been a series of delays and rejections of Brexit plans in parliament and it looked like it might not happen. (I'm not British and have only watched this from afar so I'm actually curious about if this read is accurate.)
- shawabawa3 3y agoIt's accurate in that that's what the government said, and they had a huge majority so could do whatever they wanted But due to our awful electoral system, they achieved that with only around 40% of the vote
- andrewstuart 3y agoMurdoch wanted brexit. Rupert’s Australia's ‘deadliest export’. https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/rupert-s-our-deadliest-export-trump-s-an-egomaniac-bully-says-turnbull-20230504-p5d5mh.html https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/rupert-s-our-dead...
- ThisIsNotNew 3y agoUK employers refused to increase salaries because they had unlimited supply of cheap labour from Eastern Europe, they treated them like shit but they still came and worked for them. Well the end result is those same working class British who they refused to pay more eventually voted Brexit. Now the UK employers are super desperate for staff because there is no more cheap labour for them to take advantage off. And wages are rising faster because the workers are in charge now.
- thedrbrian 3y agoan example from the industry I'm in https://www.ft.com/content/13a0a9f5-5db6-488c-9860-18bd74fd2572 https://www.ft.com/content/13a0a9f5-5db6-488c-9860-18bd74fd2... Oh no, we've got to invest in our staff