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The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on
- toomuchtodo 2y agoJust had to wait for all the old British voters who supported it to age out.
- ahartmetz 2y agoWill it be be called Breentry?
- Gvaskas 2y agoVery nice way of saying that you can't wait for all those pesky indigenous people to die.
- defrost 2y agoNot a lot of Twue Celtic Britons left these days, waves of Anglo-Saxon settlement, along with Danes and Gaelic-speaking tribes to the north pushed the RealBritons™ back to the tin mines and sea tunnels of Wales and Cornwall.
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- MattPalmer1086 2y agoYoung *indigenous" (whatever that means in the UK) were overwhelmingly more likely to vote against Brexit. And older people were more likely to vote for it The vote itself was extremely close, and it won't take many older people dying to swing it the other way. In fact, I think it already has, but not by much yet. Your "race replacement" argument is just offensive and not what was meant.
- tim333 2y agoI think if they'd just allowed a second vote once the terms of leaving were known, that might not have been necessary.
- jfengel 2y agoThey kinda did. They had a general election in 2019, which the Conservatives won by a resounding margin. It's not quite a vote on the actual terms of the deal, though I'd argue that's a pretty high bar to set. Negotiations are hard-fought compromises, and subjecting that to yet another set of fingers in the pie makes practically any agreement impossible. There's a reason we have representative democracies. And the representatives chosen were clearly sent to make Brexit happen. The original referendum was much too vague, and should never have happened. And the 2019 election wasn't really a great measure of the support for Brexit; it's easily blamed on Corbyn's many failures (and he promptly resigned). But I'd say that Remain had about as many bites at the apple as is reasonable in a democracy. A whole lot of bad choices were made, and there's plenty of blame to go around. The UK democratically made a bad choice. And I don't know of any good way to fix the fundamental problems with that.
- wordpad25 2y agoWe all heard the bad. Can't be all bad. I wonder if there was a sector that had seen a big boost since brexit and not just due to less competition but due to genuine improved efficiency.
- kridsdale1 2y ago> Can't be all bad. Why not?
- xracy 2y ago/s because surely half a country couldn't make a bad economic decision. Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Arnt 2y agoCustoms paperwork facilitators, consultants and similar service providers.
- tim333 2y agoCross channel people smugglers? That seems to be up a lot. Also millionaires leaving - I think the UK is a world leader at millionaire export at the moment. Also foreign passport application processing in London - I recently got a German passport and there's a huge backlog of applications.
- cranky908canuck 2y agohttps://archive.ph/mhnBU https://archive.ph/mhnBU
- intelVISA 2y agoIsn't this missing the forest for the trees? EU as a whole has been crushed by US post 2009, to zoom in and say "recent trend bad!" is really missing the meta issue.
- pas 2y agocan you explain this a bit more? how it's relevant for the topic?
- intelVISA 2y agoTFA elides context that poor economic metrics started long before Brexit. I don't have a horse in the race, mind. Just interesting to see 'damning statistics' that don't really hold up to scrutiny imo.
- jinushaun 2y agoHow does it miss the issue? Sure US is doing better than all of Europe, but UK doing worse than EU.