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Brexit has completely failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll
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I still wonder why they made that referendum happen in the first place.
A lot of Rubles
I don't get what you mean by "rubles"
It's Russian currency, I'm guessing they're saying Russia had a part in helping Brexit pass.
This is unfortunately a well documented fact at this point.
That's honestly pretty creepy.
Which part?
The part where Russia contributed to Brexit.
Guess where the money for the bus came from? Brexit will be remembered as one of Putins biggest triumphs.
You guys really could've explained it earlier.
I genuinely didn't get the joke at first, and my punishment was lots of downvotes.
Gotta get more informed buddy. Nothing discussed here is that new. That said downvotes are a piss poor way to make that clear. Come on guys, let's be civil.
Honestly I kinda deserved it, since I basically knew nothing about what was happening in politics back in the day.
Russian money lol
Yeah, I know that. But why?
Russian interference in the 2016 Brexit referendum.
In essence, the Russians interfered with Brexit through various means. There is allegations that some of the biggest supporters of Brexit took Russian money in their goal of winning the referendum.
Edit: Grammar
Finally, it makes sense now.
Finally, it makes sense now.
There's good reason to believe Russia has meddled into a lot of things around that time (and beyond).
I get it now.
I expect there's an enormous amount of things you fail to grasp.
Yeah, exactly.
The Tories were afraid that the Brexiteers would split off from their party, and the "first past the post" would kill them off. So they thought that showing those Brexiteers that their idea had no majority.
So now they will be killed off by FPTP in 2024. Helped them lots, and killed the countries' future.
Ok.
The Tories were scared of the rise of the right wing UK Independence Party (UKIP), particularly their leader Nigel Farage. In order to try to stop losing voters to UKIP David Cameron (the prime minister) promised a referendum on EU membership thinking they would not vote to leave. It back fired, he resigned, and the shit show began. The vultures descended to make political and monetary opportunities despite the damage it would do to the country.
This is the tl;dr of every capitalist nation in history.
This is the tl;dr of every capitalist nation in history.
For short time political gain in a deal with UKIP and because they were sure nobody would vote leave.
Darn.
You should've seen the faces of Farage and Johnson when the Brexit campaign did win and they suddenly realized there was no plan at all, not even a rough idea of what to do in case of Leave winning. The mouth was cheering but the eyes were desperately looking for a rock to crawl under.
Bozo changed sides at the last minute to back whatever would provide him with the vehicle that would help him to be prime minister.
But not to be PM right away. Let some other sucker take that job and fuck it up (because it’s an impossible task as there are a dozen different ideas of Brexit) then he can come along later once most of the dust has settled.
Power grab and racism
Wasn't it more xenophobia? The word racism is thrown around so much it has almost lost all its meaning. Most of the immigrants were white.
The definition of “white” has changed throughout history, to fit the needs of whatever racists want to push.
When the Irish potato famine was happening and America was being flooded with refugees, there was a lot of anti-Irish rhetoric and Irish settlers often weren’t conferred the same benefits that other white settlers were. Even though Irish are pretty much the whitest whites to have ever whited, they weren’t considered white.
Same with Italians and the Spanish. Whether or not they’re considered white is always up in the air, because it changes depending on what the racist is trying to push. If it’s the “speak English” type of racist, they probably aren’t white. But if it’s the “we have the majority, we should control the majority” then they probably are.
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/06/25/483362200/brexit-whats-race-got-to-do-with-it
Yeah it's well earned. Enjoy, Brits.
Why racism though?
we must stop all those damn immigrants
Pride and racism mixed with delusion. A significant amount of British people think they're better than everyone else and the EU was lucky to have them.
Finally, some useful info.