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Hattix t1_iws3hub wrote

Didn't the Brits vote for this six years ago? Why are they complaining they got what they wanted?

^(It was just Project Fear, really Britain is not in recession, Europe is not returning to growth, we have always been at war with Eastasia.)

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No_more_hiding t1_iwunkmj wrote

Don't be facetious. The margin was very small between Remain and Leave, which is well known. So no, we didn't all want this.

Since then, every year, young adults are coming of age into a Brexit Britain that they didn't even get a chance to vote for. Children are growing up in poverty.

I've seen people recently admit online that they voted Leave because of the lies about more money for the NHS and regretting their choice. If you lived here, you would know it's a lot more nuanced.

People were lied to for years and years by Murdoch et al's media about the pesky EU ruining everything for everyone. Russia blatantly helped drive the campaign, funnelling money into Leave's campaign because they knew it was such a bad idea.

The areas that voted Leave in the greatest numbers were the most deprived areas of England. They were asked to vote if they wanted things to remain the same, or Leave and promised it would make things better.

People were never given a choice of what it actually meant, whether it's a hard or soft Brexit. There were no details planned out.

It was a con, it should never have happened. I knew it would be a bad idea and voted Remain, as did most people I know. This is not what we wanted.

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Hattix t1_iwurwhw wrote

That's the point. We voted for everything and nothing all at the same time.

I live near Barnsley, where that clown went on Channel 4 news the week after the non-binding referendum saying he'd voted leave to "get the Muslims out".

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No_more_hiding t1_iwuwdit wrote

Fair enough! Argh, those people are so dumb.

I just get wound up when people say we wanted this 😂 It devastated me at the time, I could see this shit-show coming and seeing it all happen, plus more sucks so bad!

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