I mean duh. This was all pretty obvious in terms of outcomes when this all was starting.
The amount of “I’m shocked, Shocked I tell you, SHOCKED… that the leopards have chosen to eat my face off as well!” is staggering, and only understandable to me b/c I live in the USA, where we are doing pretty much the same thing.
“Facts” do not matter to conservatives, only how they “feel” about something, in the moment.:-(
They take the message of their religion and turn it into veneration of their ego. If democratic participation required a test first, we wouldn’t be having this problem, nor dozens of others.
There are driving tests, and vehicle registration, but the truly dangerous stuff like guns and voting have that vastly reduced to eliminated.
History shows that every expansion of voting was accompanied by some new party looking to get elected by so doing. And now conservatives are doing similarly to what you said, and opposite to those historical expansions, by increasing restrictions / decreasing availability for college students to vote. Basically whatever helps them win. Liberals likewise are trying to get former prisoners onto the rosters, as conservatives have been pushing for the opposite.
But the uneducated people would not take kindly to having the conservative strategy, levied against others, turned around and used against them. What “should” be done, what “makes sense”, is irrelevant in politics, which is the art of doing what is possible, not what is correct.
Just look at the propaganda the right was pushing out at the time.
https://reaction.life/britain-looks-like-brexit/
It’s complete fantasy and almost nothing it predicted came to pass.
What on earth kind of fever dream did I just read? This looks like it was written with the power of hindsight to be able to present the exact inverse of everything that happened, yet somehow wasn’t.
Seriously, this reads like a time traveler trolling us on the long con.
It really is a bizarre document. I could understand a wishlist or even a future tense fantasy, but the way they wrote it in past tense from a future vantage is just bonkers. It’s so weird.
But looking at the dates it was published a couple days before the actual Brexit vote, which they expected to lose, so I think this was meant as a tantalizing fantasy to use to chide people once the vote failed. But then it didn’t.
It was also absurd at the time. The way he talks about REACH is insane. He thinks the chemical industry in the EU wasnt powerful enough to lobby against unessescary legislation?
REACH is the minimum we agreed on to not have everyone and their dog be exposed to harmful chemicals and work towards using somewhat less harmful chemicals.
What he was demanding there is deregulating in the style of putting lead back into gasoline.
it usually is. And ask about it, they’ll say lead’s fine. They’ve never even heard that it’s poisonous, they’ll look at you like you’re a four-eyed frog when you tell them, and then they’ll ask for a citation. And you’re not even allowed to just stab them at that point, even as a mercy killing.
Oh no.
Anyway…
While I do loves me a good great meme reference, please remember that a lot of people voted against it - there are a bunch of innocents that got wrapped up along with all of this, as well as the perpetrators and the collaborators too ofc.
Genuinely felt some betrayal and paranoia after I voted against it and it went through.
I remember waking up after the referendum and being really sad, the UK was an ally to us Danes on most EU-issues, and it felt a little bit like a breakup. I still haven’t really forgiven you lot, to be honest, which is silly but true.
And then it got worse as the goal posts kept changing as to what “Brexit” meant. To the point where a no deal went from being something remain were lampooned for saying could happen to being apparently what people wanted.
True but it’s also firmly out of our European hands now. The uk left, and we only let them back in when they have learned some humility and are willing to rejoin on standard conditions. That is not happening yet.
Definitely - they had it all, but got greedy and pushed for even more, and since they made it adversarial you gotta protect yourself. It’s like you are building this wonderful thing, but if they want to strike out on their own that is up to them. Nobody was forcing their hand there.
Lol
Lmao even
