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Another Brexit bonus It’s no coincidence those that championed Brexit are those that wanted a weaker Europe and weaker U.K. That’s why the majority of tax pay
by hdgvhicv 9mo ago
Another Brexit bonus
It’s no coincidence those that championed Brexit are those that wanted a weaker Europe and weaker U.K.
That’s why the majority of tax payers were against it, the majority of educated people voted against it, the majority of working people voted against it, the majority of people alive today who voted voted against it
Yet we still got it.
- bflesch 9mo agoIt's never to late to rejoin, we've all learned a lot about foreign propaganda in the last decade.
- tonyedgecombe 9mo agoWe need a whole generation to die off before that becomes likely. In the mean time we should move closer when the opportunity rises.
- bflesch 9mo agoDon't be so sure that the next generation automatically gets less indoctrinated. Facebook at least documented content interactions out in the open. With tiktok you don't notice what kind of content someone consumes. There are tens of thousands of people working a full time job just to influence people in democratic countries to act/vote against their interests. Then we have hundreds of thousands more in advertisement industry with their own interests, mainly in line with goals of US companies. There is reason for optimism because if everyone is on tiktok it becomes "uncool" again but still it is a very dangerous tool.
- bloomingeek 9mo agoI'll bite on this one. I've been saying to anyone who will listen here in the states: my generation, the Boomers, needs to die out and/or get the hell out of the way. We're trashing almost everything because of a cult of hero worship.
- fnimick 9mo agoWhile I used to agree with you, based on the most recent polling, Gen X and Gen Z are both farther right than Boomers are these days. So we're fucked long term too.
- hdgvhicv 9mo agohttps://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/53923-how-would-britain-vote-at-the-start-of-2026 https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/53923-how-would-brita... Look at age breakdown
- yetihehe 9mo agoSomeone at Davos commented "It took you 7 years to negotiate your way out, it will take you 7 years to regret and then 7 years to negotiate back in".
- consp 9mo agoAll while losing all goodies and setting the economy back a decade.
- Nextgrid 9mo agoBut the remaining wealth of the country has successfully been extracted in the form of overpriced and not-fit-for-purpose utilities, transport companies, taxes, and so on and given to corporate interests. From their perspective it's a resounding success.
- hdgvhicv 9mo agoDidn’t need Brexit for that - it’s been going on for decades.
- blibble 9mo agowith most of the privatisations triggered by EU law!
- LightBug1 9mo agoI wouldn't strictly put all of them at the feet of the EU. While what you say is true, the Conservatives were frothing to privatise whatever they could. Labour just went along with the process (and I'm no Labour supporter either). The one I won't forgive was our water. I believe we're the only developed country to have privatised our water, with disastrous consequences. And that one can be squarely laid at the feet of Margaret 'Fucking" Thatcher (real name).
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- davidwritesbugs 9mo agoBloody poor people deciding for themselves what they want. Shouldn't get a vote unless you have a degree and property. If only they'd had the sense to listen to their betters.
- infinite8s 9mo agoThose poor people voted for something for which they were explicitly mislead. The results of Brexit have in no ways made their lives better.
- davidwritesbugs 9mo agoIn other words "democracy" - people with an agenda tell their version of its benefits. Saying "the vote was invalid because the poor uneducated people were too stupid to realise they were being lied to"
- mig39 9mo agoAnd those poor people are objectively poorer because of Brexit. But as long as there's fewer foreigners coming in, then they're happy?
- hdgvhicv 9mo agoThere’s more foreigners coming in. Which was “project fear” back in 2016.
- ifwinterco 9mo agoThe elites made the mistake of actually putting political power in the hands of the British people for once. Catastrophic error on their part, they won't do that again