know that Putin is the mastermind behind Brexit. And all along I thought it was Dr. Evil!
Posted on 05/11/2024 7:50:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It is rare for voters to change their minds soon after referendums. Experience from Canada to Scotland, from Norway to Switzerland, suggests rather that opinions tend to move in favour of a referendum result more than they swing against it. But Brexit seems to be an exception.
Since the 52-48% vote in favour of leaving the European Union in June 2016, the majority view among Britons has shifted, and especially so in the past two years, towards the conclusion that the decision was wrong.
One way to take the temperature is to visit two English towns called Richmond which voted in very different ways in 2016. In Richmond-upon-Thames in London, which voted 69-31% to remain in the EU, opinion has hardened. Gareth Roberts, the Liberal Democrat council leader, notes that post-Brexit niggles such as longer border delays and more intrusive passport controls have helped to solidify local opposition. A Leave voter sitting by the river says he has not changed his mind, but that he is disappointed by the Tories’ failure to strike big trade deals outside the EU.
The other Richmond, in north Yorkshire, voted 57-43% for Brexit. One Leaver in the market square echoes his southern counterpart by insisting that he still supports Brexit but he complains that it has not been properly done and that immigration has surged despite repeated Tory promises to reduce it. A local bartender says that she voted instinctively to leave but that, were the referendum re-run, she would work harder to understand what it would really mean.
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What bee ess.
Just like the Democrats ignoring laws they don’t like, Brexit has never been implemented by the elites in power.
The Globalist mouthpiece in the form of the rag known as “The Economist[sic]” just never stop, do they?
Sure they do lol. Brit swamp propaganda, gaslighting and roadblocking has been non-stop. This story is more of it.
Putin paid for it. A divided Europe suits his goals.
This is total nonsense... The Euro supporters in the UK were stunned when they lost because the media convinced them that everybody supported staying in EU... But when the votes were counted Brexit won.... Just like they’d win again and again and again. The European union is a complete mess.
I doubt this.
The communists continue their push and propaganda.
> I call total BS. “The Economist” just can’t let go.
Absolutely. These people are just like the ones still maintaining that the Rosenbergs were innocent.
The young do, because they can’t get discounted vacays anymore by being able to go anywhere.
The young tend to not concern themselves with being self-determined.
Maybe because of endless globalist propaganda .
They’ve been repeating the big lies over and over.
“Cor blimey! I wanted to be a slave to the EU. What a bloody dumb idea it was to be free.”
Britain has yet to Brexit.
Britain is being made to pay for attempting to do so.
Shelling the beach head I suspect. When Labor takes over and decides to ignore Brexit, they can fall back on a “nobody was really for it” position.
Typical Globalist nullification of democratic decisions.
If the European Union is so good why are all the Illegals showing up in the UK ? D’oh
IIRC most people thought Brexit would reduce immigration.
This didnt happen because Brexit could not have done that except with respect to Euro (Schengen) travellers. “Polish plumbers” weren’t really the people Brexiteers wanted kept out.
The Tory governments post Brexit did nothing to shut down third world immigration, notably the Pakis, Africans and etc.
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