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The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on
(www.independent.co.uk)
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More than 52% of British people in 2016 and still more than many now, I bet. I always supported Remain but before I voted I wanted to do my due diligence and re-evaluate. It took googling "brexit pros and cons" and all of 5 minutes reading a BBC infographic to confirm that basically everything the leave campaign said was completely and utterly wrong.
The fact that most people still voted for it despite the obvious lies was way more disappointing to me than the racism. Back then I thought better of people.
I know a couple of people who said they didn't know what to vote for so voted for the default, which they thought was to leave.
Some other old person said he doesn't like immigrants (or specifically people of a certain skin colour) and wants back gold top milk (which apparently the EU took away...).
Somebody else saying they don't want Brussels telling us what to do and we need our fishing rights back. Also immigration.
My future, my son's future, all now shaped in a more restrictive way because of people's views like this.
Ironically for the old racist man we now have less white Europeans immigrants as before and more from Africa and India regions, at least in the area I live. I love it how it's backfired on him.
Yes! I really tried to explain this to people. One guy I saw on the news said he was voting Brexit to "get the Muslims out," apparently completely unaware of how batshit insane it is to leave the European Union to reduce the number of non European people in Britain.
Yeah it fucking sucks. I left before the official Brexit date, in a year or two I will hopefully have an EU citizenship again. Most of my friends couldn't have really done that so easily
Which is why spreading public lies with the intention to mislead the public should be a criminal offence.
If they were selling any physical goods, that would be a fraudulent misrepresentation. I don't see why the bar in politics should be any lower.
It should be a hell of a lot higher, but the people with the power to change it are the only people who would be punished, so...
Not disagreeing with you here but I think this is THE action to push, as much as everyone is able to.