If only someone had told them that this exact outcome would happen.
The problem was someone else also told them this exact outcome wouldn’t happen.
The problem is how do you prove the other guy is a liar when he is saying you’re a liar? <Insert Spiderman pointing meme>
Yup, I just described how the british political system is played.
The problem is that the person who told them this was Boris Johnson who was about as believable as the devil. So it’s still on them.
If the bus was true:
I’m sure they didn’t think the leopards would eat their face…
Usually I’m extremely sympathetic of Brexit woes considering the slim majority, lying Leave campaign, and considering the vote happened immediately after the EU refugee crisis where anti-EU sentiment was at a high all over the union.
I also usually remind the people that call for blood that, at the time, countries like France, Italy, Czechia, Austria, the Netherlands, Greece, and others had the same level or higher anti-EU sentiment. That people are lucky only the UK’s leadership was stupid enough to allow the vote to happen when it did, and that the UK’s population aren’t any more guilty or deserving of punishment than a slew of other European populations.
But UK farmers? Nah. These people are business owners who should be expected to do their research. These people should’ve known that cutting ties with the strictest food market on Earth and opening the floodgates to food from elsewhere would damage their business. They voted for Brexit overwhelmingly. I have much less sympathy for these people.
The positive is that the Tories are heading for an electoral catastrophe. And farmers hold immense sway for the Tories in a way they don’t with Labour.
The farmers are guilty because they were just greedy. So greedy that they didn’t engage their brains. They only wanted to do was be able to basically poison people and get away with it with really dodgy food practices, and are now upset that they can’t do that. They can go swing on it.
They voted for Brexit overwhelmingly
One ignorant tantrum after another, their minds not only closed, but forced shut and locked.
Just like all those ignorant expats living in places like Benidorm or Tenerife, they also voted overwhelmingly for Brexit, then when the hammer of the new strict rules came down on them, that ignorant, bitter and self-satisfied smirk was wiped from their faces.
They all probably still blame everyone around except themselves, as ignorance and stupidity tends to double, triple, quadruple down.
Just like all those ignorant expats living in places like Benidorm or Tenerife, they also voted overwhelmingly for Brexit
That’s not actually true. Over 70% of Brits living in the EU wanted to remain part of the EU. Many of them weren’t eligible to vote in the referendum, though, due to living abroad for too long.
A poll from 2023 puts anti-EU sentiment in France (ie. Leave) at 26%. Not great, but obviously not very high. And I think a “remain” camp in France would have learned a few things from brexit.
I’m talking about at the time. I.e. around the time of the EU refugee crisis. 2023 polling has no bearing on ~2015 polling.
Of course it’s higher now, the same is true everywhere in the EU I’d expect, as well as in the UK. Brexit has been a a massive bit of positive PR for the EU, and Euroscepticism has dropped considerably since.
at the time, countries like France, Italy, Czechia, Austria, the Netherlands, Greece, and others had the same level or higher anti-EU sentiment
I would very much doubt that, seeing as I’ve never heard of any significant leave campaign in any of these countries let alone any actual legislative move to do so.
Are you serious? You’ve never heard of, for example, France’s national front party, who was the their largest party in the EU parliament, headed by Marine Le Pen, and wanted to leave the EU?
Eurosceptic movements were huge all across the union, particularly after the refugee crisis. It’s only after Brexit that these movements have fizzled out.
I’m not saying that there aren’t other eurosceptic, I just don’t agree that they were at “the same level or higher” than in the UK.
As far as I’m aware, France has not left the EU indicating to me that euroscepticism in France has in fact never reached the same level as in the UK.
Just because you haven’t heard about it, doesn’t mean it’s not the case, jeez pull your head out your arse. France had a leave referendum too, and the majority voted leave, but they had politicians who were smart enough to ignore the results.
Why, thank you for your polite way of providing missing information to others.
You certainly make participating in this community an enjoyable experience.
They voted for Brexit overwhelmingly. I have much less sympathy for these people.
Challenging the myth that farmers voted for Brexit (and therefore deserve what’s coming to them…)
I lived in Sunderland at the time and the amount of brainless sentiment that was going around was huge. So I’m going to go ahead and say yeah actually a lot of the Nissan workers did vote for Brexit.
Quite possibly because they thought they were going to give the Tories a bloody nose but still they did vote for it.
Interesting piece.
A poll in early 2016, conducted by the University of Exeter, found that 46 per cent of the farmers they questioned said the interests of British agriculture would be best served by the UK remaining in the EU, while only 36 per cent indicated it would be better to leave.
Another poll a few days before the referendum vote found that 38 per cent wanted to remain, 34 per cent to leave and 28 per cent were undecided.
Two polls, one in December 2016 and one in December 2017, both with near identical results found that among the farmers who responded, 53 per cent voted to leave, 45 per cent voted to remain and 2 per cent did not vote.
Hmm, I wonder how they voted…
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