Let's see, the right to decide who we trade with, the right to choose our own path without permission from an unelected body (EU Council), the right to set our own laws and not those of the same unelected body. There's 3 to start with, yes I voted to leave, but not for Boris's reasons.
At least there has been a shift back to sanity in the UK. Not great but compared to the s show we’re experiencing in the US Brexit will look like a hiccup
American?
Yeah I suppose with a little bit of perspective, but yeah still far from sanity in the UK at the moment
Reform UK is the second biggest party now (maga just with a different name!)
Well that would depend on who you talk to! But for the vast majority of the population yeah it's not very popular........... The economy has taken a massive hit, and that's only just sinking in now for most people
I don't live in the UK, I live in Spain now, I can see it from the outside in as well
It's not, but in *certain* polls, Reform is in front of Labour at the moment. Much of it is the fault of MSM hyping Farage, and doing so much more recently. The BBC is the worst; he's never off the News, Question Time, Politics Live, etc, whereas the LibDems, Greens and the SNP never get an invite.
Was another con job. We Know those. Fooled us as well ( at least some). Immigrants eating puppies and kittens? Please! What semi intelligent person would believe that without fact checking?
That is a very unfair characterisation. Just think of how much money Johnson's cronies siphoned off the general population through their lies. It's not like that money is just gone, it just went from everybody else into the pockets of those thriving off the big scam.
I expect that the “moaning remainers” are being largely ignored now that time has shown they were right. I suppose it’s better than the constant sneering from the Smart People, like England’s Donald Trump.
The Canadian governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, also warned about the consequences of Brexit. He was vilified for stating the economic realities. Mark Carney is now running for leadership of the Liberal party in Canada and could
be our next PM, propaganda is the only thing in the way.
Unlike the tabloid papers still saying on their front pages that the traitors are those who want either closer ties with the EU or even rejoin. Despite many of those being people who voted Leave and now realise they were lied to by those same newspapers!
Okay, pardon me in advance for my ignorance but is there a way to go back to the EU and undo the Brexit or are there a lot more factors in place that will make it difficult? I'm genuinely curious and want to understand
Ah okay, makes sense. One would hope that the EU would recognize if a country that used to be with them is coming back correctly would speed the process up. But I can understand why they would be hesitant, thank you for that
It's in the nature of everything natural to evolve. And yet some dumbasses think that voting a party that call themselves "Conservatives" as in "Those who maintain things as they are" is a good idea.
They don't want to maintain things are they are - they want to return to things as they were in some mythical golden age. Brexit was a revolt against modernity. It still is.
And every trade deal we've struck since was either the exact same terms we had with EU membership or worse and we still haven't got all the trade deals we had 🤷♂️
I'm a citizen of the first country ever to impose economic sanctions on itself by leaving the EU, versus a country voting for Nellie Bonespurs...twice? I wouldn't like to call it, but please, feel free to condemn away.
Ah, Nigel Farage. Like an ageing rock star still belting out his one hit from the '90s, he just can’t let Brexit go. According to The Daily Express, he’s back on his favourite soapbox, claiming that Brexit hasn’t "been delivered properly". https://aiwillybillhuman.substack.com/p/farages-brexit-fairy-tales-the-never
Heard this. He should come to Northern Ireland. Not a joke there was a dairy farmer in Donegal (in the rep of Ireland but next to NI) who had cows in fields that were in RoI and NI (v common loads of land crosses “border” cos wasn’t meant to be one) and he couldn’t sell his milk because of that.
@guyell.bsky.social what an exhausting list of accomplishments. Weird how a policy built off of lies and racism didn’t help as much as promised. 🤔 I’m shocked.
There needs to be a huge culture shift towards European identity in Great Britain, otherwise we are an abusive partner promising “I’ve changed,” buying flowers and chocolates before the abusive cycle starts again.
How many Americans are having trouble remembering when they still had a free press that was willing to call out past mistakes? And hell there aren't enough front pages to capture even 10% of this administration's wrong doing on a daily basis.
Ha ha ha ha ha!!!!! What kind of IDIOT voted for BREXIT???? I mean the obviously horrible plan for Great Britain to remove itself from the EU, I mean how dumb can you be?? Ha ha ha ha! America says, “I See that you let rich, racist assholes take over your country!… Hold my Beer…
I LOve how all the geniuses who could have stopped Brexit by introducing a couple of changes are still complaining about it. You brought this on yourselves. I also Love the fact that they have done nothing but block the needed changes in the UK> But somehow it's all Brexits fault. Grow up already.
Of course, why should the UK become a worse place without cause? Similarly, why did the US need to become a far worse place over the last decade? The Brexit referendum preceded the 2016 election by 6 months. Both elections were avoidable and devastating.
Unfortunately we had Boris Johnson a very viable Russian asset that even UK security forces said was a national security risk become Prime Minister . . Sound familiar
take the warning, be vigilant create laws and enforcement mechanism to protect yourself. the most obvious is to restrict the amount anyone can contribute to a candidate or party
Better together I agree but our Brexit situation is what it is now. Real damage has been done on the island of Ireland where prices north and south skyrocketed. There was no reason for Republic price hikes but EU can’t help them either. Sorry for USA now it’s Orwell come to life.
Prices in Ireland have risen in recent years because of the inflation crisis that's affected the global economy. I'm sure Brexit had some impact but inflation in the UK has been significantly higher than Ireland. Overall Ireland just modified its EU Single Market supply chain.
That's only as long as China doesn't take any active part in conflicts. And this will only last until they're done with the Taiwan and Hong-Kong situations, so...
EU and US are strong together. On their own, neither of them will be able to uphold their interests for very long.
We need to remember that aside from Canada, the rest of the world hates us both quite a lot (and most of them with good reason, that's why we don't have more allies).
Even within the EU, there's some leaders, like Orban, who would gladly sell out to Putin.
But Canada is a country located in North America, even though you may object to that with the existence of French overseas territories which some of them are located in American territory, such as French Guiana, the largest one of all of them & located in South America.
The province of Quebec could.
We have no strong EU. We have far right prime ministers and governments in many countries. Italy, Hungary, the Netherlands for instance. Since last year 15 countries in the EU have far right parties in government or supporting government. And they all like Trump :-(
We know the reason, as much as some like to pretend otherwise. But if you look closely the headline doesn't say "reason", it says "benefits". I note that you failed to list any.
Too true. Brexit was always a con to weaken the U.K. They stood strong and won over the Nazis in WW2. So, of course the New Nazis wanted them weakened.
It's amazing how being a racist white nationalist can affect your judgment. You know when they say men think with their... you know... It's just that RWN don't even think. I mean they're that stupid, like stupider than moronic.
Same crap Elon is trying with his hired h1b employees making fake accounts to sway voters in all countries to vote for Fascists and Dictator wannabe people! Tell all Countries in EU to Kick X out of their Countries. Shut it down. Ban it. It is being used for division and to spread Lies.
The British public were also extensively lied to about the benefits of leaving Europe. But it certainly didn't help that right-wing think tanks, political parties, and the media perpetuated these lies, and there were no consequences for them whatsoever for spreading misinformation on social media.
Not British people. England caused Britains departure from Europe. English people elected a full majority Tory Parliament (again), made Joris Bonson PM, and fucked everyone in Britain. Its important to never forget to make that distinction. Scottish people voted against it because its dumb as fuck!
At least over there the next day I saw a bunch of people being interviewed saying oh my God I didn't realize what I was voting for I didn't know if I was Voting to get out or in over here they're bragging about this s*** that caused
I'm Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Dutch, German & French. I'm what happens when all those people from those countries wanted better for their lives and escaped to America and had large families for generations since the 1600's in USA & Canada!🤝
Brexit is an unmitigated disaster but Britain has survived and is on the mend i believe i hope the same for US after this outlae administration is gone
Phase one of Putin's work. I expect the same results for this second phase here in the US.
It's called install tRump in the WH, so the name isn't as catchy.
I’m a U.S. citizen. When certain people here more recently started talking out their arses about seceding from the U.S. I immediately thought about Brexit. They have NO idea how involved & cumbersome it would be for them.
I think that the main thing Brexit accomplished, geopolitically, was giving the UK the means to slam the border shut as things deteriorate on the mainland in the years ahead. Just my perception.
Over on the Musk platform, formerly known as Twitter, the CPC party is throwing shade at Liberal Party leader candidate Mark Carney by quoting former PM Liz Truss.
I take it that the overall sentiment is Brexit was a mistake and Carney was right?
American MSM should do the same for all the tax cuts for the uber wealthy that were supposed to show manufacturing growth, increased wages and all the touted benefits of trickle down that never happened and when proven wrong, were supposed to expire.
I dunno what to tell you. but Boris Johnson organised a press conference specifically to tell us Tim Tams were coming. (He did at the early ages of the pandemic too.)
You (as it were) voted for it and reaffirmed it 3 years after, now Farage is gonna be PM before the end of the decade cause Labor can't put out all the fires in a week, all you can do is sleep in the bed you made
Tories knew, we'd want Indy, when all their lies came out, so robbed as much as they could & destroyed everything, as they knew their Empire was over, now Labour steer the sinking ship to disaster after disaster & feck all but Contempt shown to the people, for their mismanagement of the UK's Economy
Brexit was funded by an American Billionaire, too. Perhaps we should outlaw such accumulation of wealth, since it's only benefit is that it identifies sociopaths.
In Britain it’s a superiority complex amongst some in the population. Britannia rule the waves and all that shit. Used to be all about the Irish. Then the Irish and the African Caribbean folk. Now it’s the boats. They’ve always had their targets.
Nonetheless Farage seems attract followers. It's a little unclear to me what people now expect of him after he sold them Brexit with lies about all the glorious money they would then have to spend on the NHS etc.
If they made a spitting image puppet of him I doubt you could distinguish between the actual human and the puppet. Reminds me of Wormtongue in Lord of the Rings. I cannot fathom how people fail to read through his lies and deceit.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
Yet another example of a disastrous ideologically driven right wing failure assisted by a complicit and corrupt MSM. The right wing are proficient at one thing only. Manipulating public sentiment by inciting anger through misinformation and scapegoats.
Who would have thought listening to Nigel Farage would have brought about the economic and social renaissance that has now made England the greatest nation on earth and the envy of the world? Oh crap that didn’t happen? But he promised!
I can tell you a Brexit benefit: I was living there when it happened, it made me feel unwelcome and I moved to Spain. Found life in Spain to be much better. Maybe it's a very personal take, but still a benefit, at least for me.
If I remember correctly, many people who voted for Brexit didn’trealize what their vote meant. In fact there was talk of a redo but that never happened.
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Yes, it’s a simple answer for a simple people who thought a simple solution would solve their complicated and intricate problems.
Maybe less doom scrolling and YouTube fails and more books and history lessons. What do you think?
Yeah I suppose with a little bit of perspective, but yeah still far from sanity in the UK at the moment
Reform UK is the second biggest party now (maga just with a different name!)
I don't live in the UK, I live in Spain now, I can see it from the outside in as well
be our next PM, propaganda is the only thing in the way.
But then, Canada has been demented before, and the imported MAGA Kool-Aid flows in certain streets.
…and breath.
We sorta did mate.
2016... and then voting for this fucking goon in 2019... which was effectively a second vote for Brexit
Both Putins lapdog and traitors to their countries.
https://aiwillybillhuman.substack.com/p/farages-brexit-fairy-tales-the-never
The south of France, perhaps?
https://traffic.libsyn.com/yinhistory/EP27-Brexit.mp3
Understand the UK and EU are under attack!
The puppet sitting is US WH is sourced by the same attacking UK and EU!
WTF up!
Watch: this time next year US newspapers will have the same front page on trump’s ‘accomplishments’
Good news is the morons banning books will never ban guns, so you know what you have to do, when you feel like it.
EU and US are strong together. On their own, neither of them will be able to uphold their interests for very long.
Even within the EU, there's some leaders, like Orban, who would gladly sell out to Putin.
#CANADA
#EU
#DENMARK
The province of Quebec could.
Hugs to my wonderful American friends. I worry about you and I will fight for you.
#satire #meme
#EUrwelcome
In the meantime have another UK-themed meme...😉
(It would list absolutely NOTHING!)
I'd be happy to have them back honestly, no grudges 😺
Alexander Nix really did a number on the British people.
So sad.
Cambridge is still operating under the name Emerdata
Toss them out Tuesdays!
...gatherings in every community...
Never give up! 💜
When Britain was circling the drain on the Brexit vote, we Americans were all "Farage is lying to you!" and "How can you Brits be this stupid!"
Well...
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It stopped Britain disrupting the European Union so much
Brexit is a disaster
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700005
Call me to discuss the strategy. PM your number.
See also
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It's called install tRump in the WH, so the name isn't as catchy.
Just a prediction of what’s to come, I guess.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700005
14k signatures still needed by April 30th, which should then trigger a formal debate in Parliament if we can get to the 100k signatures mark.
Clever use of a front page. 😏
I take it that the overall sentiment is Brexit was a mistake and Carney was right?
- British Supermarkets now stock "Tim Tams" an austrailian chocolate.
It didn’t seem like they were some new, latest fad at the time.
And they’re a chocolate biscuit, not a chocolate.
I dunno what to tell you. but Boris Johnson organised a press conference specifically to tell us Tim Tams were coming. (He did at the early ages of the pandemic too.)
So far, everything is going as planned.
How the Kremlin uses social medias and disinformation to undermine democracies.
(used an online translator)
https://politoscope.org/2024/07/3471/?sfnsn=wa
Then we forgot and the rich cunts came crying to Thatcher and Reagan boohoohoo the taxes are too high we want more pudding
So sick and tired of these whiney brats
He was well paid by the Tories to find them.
#6'Elon
That's an old PSA 😆
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
The point stands, of course
#JunkInTheTrump
#ElongatedMuskrat
Brilliant!! 🤣🤣🤣