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Just look at the propaganda the right was pushing out at the time.
https://reaction.life/britain-looks-like-brexit/
It’s complete fantasy and almost nothing it predicted came to pass.
What on earth kind of fever dream did I just read? This looks like it was written with the power of hindsight to be able to present the exact inverse of everything that happened, yet somehow wasn’t.
Seriously, this reads like a time traveler trolling us on the long con.
I think it was some kind of sexual thing?
What the shit? That article is utter, utter tripe. They’re not even celebrating an ‘independence day’, which out of the things described in that garbage writeup would have been one of the easiest things to accomplish.
Holy shit that was hilarious to read. But sad that people took that propaganda seriously
The referendum was 8 years ago but the Brexit took place 4 years ago
Some effects started before brexit was official. As institutions and individuals sought to minimize negative impact. I recall reading about european students leaving british universities pre brexit.
Oh no.
Anyway…
While I do loves me a
goodgreat meme reference, please remember that a lot of people voted against it - there are a bunch of innocents that got wrapped up along with all of this, as well as the perpetrators and the collaborators too ofc.Genuinely felt some betrayal and paranoia after I voted against it and it went through.
And then it got worse as the goal posts kept changing as to what “Brexit” meant. To the point where a no deal went from being something remain were lampooned for saying could happen to being apparently what people wanted.
Brexit meant brexit. And something about ready meals.
I was a remainer but unfortunately I don’t think rejoining would win a vote any time soon.
We had a good deal when we were in the EU and won’t get the same terms - and joining under the standard terms (Eurozone membership, common agricultural policy etc) would not be attractive. It’ll be harder fight to electorally to rejoin than it was to stay in, at least at the moment.
I think it’s more likely we will fudge rejoin by rejoining the single market, taking the rules without a say but it’s hardly any party’s priority. The tories have imploded and Labour dare not mention the EU as all they care about is winning the election this year. The EU just isn’t talked about as an electoral issue anymore.
Also I should say from within the UK, leaving the EU hasn’t felt particularly negative. Our economic problems started before we left the EU with the financial crisis in 2011, so we were used to "austerity"and anemic growth. Also while the country hasn’t grown it also hasn’t contracted, it’s stagnated. That’s not good but it’s not as impactful on ordinary people. And Covid had also been a distraction - a lot of economic harm has been blamed on Covid even though the EU and USA in particular have more than bounced back while the UK has only really gone back to baseline.
So for most UK citizens we haven’t seen the doom and gloom that was warned about specifically from leaving the EU, hence the lack of a push to rejoin.
I think it may be some years yet before rejoining the EU is on the cards. And in fairness there is a lot that could be done to improve growth even without rejoining the EU - so I suspect it’ll be ignored as an issue for at least the next parliament (5 years).
joining under the standard terms (Eurozone membership, common agricultural policy etc) would not be attractive
Why not? It would still be much, much better than not being in the EU, economically speaking. Is it about pride?
I lived in the UK for a decade until Brexit.
Most of the population has massive Nationalistic Delusions Of Grandeur, including Remainers (one of the Remain arguments was “We should stay in the EU and change it from the inside” or in other words, Britain and it’s 50 million people know best and should be making the other 470 million and 27 countries to change their community for the benefit of Britain), though the Leave campaign was incredibly deluded, mainly anchored on what can be summarized as “we’ll leave and they’ll still give us the priviledges of membership but without the obligations”.
There really was none of the “let’s cooperate for the common good” spirit that most other countries have (some more of it, some less) with regards to EU membership, and their take on the EU was all “what can we get from it” and, as far as I can tell, still is. (This, by the way, is quite consistent with how Britain behave when inside the EU: it was allways “what’s in it for me”, always a you win or you lose vision, seldom if at all win-win)
Until that widespread heavilly nationalist and quite deluded spirit amongst the British population changes (and all that stuff is heavilly pushed by the local Press, with for example the coverage of International news there always slanted to make it seem like other countries are listenning to Britain and its PM, which is very much not the idea that the coverage of the same news in other countries passes) Britain won’t be back, and frankly, having seen it up close and personal from the inside, I think is best for the rest of the EU that Britain stays out until its people accept it’s just another mid-sized country and Britain becomes a normal country rather than this “old wierd uncle of Europe who is constantly going on and on about war stories which are almost a century old”
The UK thought it was getting a poor deal, when it had the most exceptions in the EU. It will still need another generation or two for the UK to realise that it is not the old empire anymore.
Mass immigration of English people to south America when? 👀
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I hope this is the example people keep in mind, when considering exit ideas elsewhere
I think it needs to be more than that. Citizens absolutely cannot trust politicians any longer. 100% across the board full stop. If they tell you one thing you initial reaction should be massive skepticism. And then you go from there.
If you think you could ever trust anyone else outside maybe you closest friends and family to act in your best interest you are naive.
On the other hand if you think that all politicians are equally untrustworthy you are even more naive.
I disagree 100% but it’s just my opinion. The world of politics, at least in the US, needs to earn back trust at this point. Are there good politicians? Of course. Can you readily identify them? Probably not easily. Are they making a significant impact at this moment? Almost impossible to tell given the state of journalism. So what should average citizen do to combat this? At worst trust but verify. At best, question everything.
99% of what i hear and read, directly from politicians state sanctioned websites (official .gov page) is platitudes. Gonna fix everything? Great, please tell me how abd be really fuckin specific.
I mean duh. This was all pretty obvious in terms of outcomes when this all was starting.
Lol
Lmao even
