• BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip
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    Some people don’t appreciate what they had until it’s gone. I hope people can learn to appreciate and understand what they have while of course working towards making things better too.

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    16 hours ago

    10yrs from now when the UK is back in the EU: “this isnt working out we should leave”

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    Yes please. Even though none of my family voted for Brexit, barely sufficiently enough people in the UK did to tip a majority. I call those people arseholes. Many arseholes know that they dropped a bollock. Some however still think Brexit worked, but that some tiny boats with migrants landing on UK shores are sufficient to offset the millions per week that Boris promised the NHS. Little boats also killed the oven ready deals that Brexiteering types had ready and waiting to go. Fair to say, I hate Brexiteers with a passion.

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      the thing that gets me with all these anti-immigrant types is…they also refuse to spend the $ to improve/stabilize these peoples countries so less feel the need to immigrate. to the point where they would rather soend even more $ trying to punish/keep em out than it would take to stabilize.

      not sure why we call these stupid fucks “conservatives”…they’re not conserving anything, it’s just regression and self-punishment

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      They should be forced to switch to the Euro like everyone else. That will prove they really mean it.

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        A shared currency and central bank for diverse economic systems is a pretty bad idea actually.

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      Since the UK joined, a lot that didn’t even exist back then, or was optional, has become a mandatory requirement for EU membership.

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    Also: British voters are on track to elect Nigel Farage as PM of a fascist government. It makes no sense.

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        Oh awesome, that fallacy is so incredibly common, now I’ve got a name for it.

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      I really really hope they don’t, but I could certainly imagine it after Labour shit the bed and disenfranchised a lot of it’s voter base.

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        I think there’s a lot of assumptions going into current polling. Labour is disenfranchising a lot of people, but a large number are becoming true “don’t knows” and taking themselves out of polling calculations.

        These are the the left of the party who are politically homeless. The greens are mopping up some of them, but Polanski is a divisive character. Some love him, and some find him superficial. Some might land in the Lib Dems as their social policies are left of labour, but there’s a lot that would never even consider that. Corbyn was trying to set up a party for them, but that’s never going anywhere.

        One thing is for sure, this block is not voting for Farage. He’s diametrically opposite to what these people believe in.

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      Got a few years to right that ship. I’m hoping we figure with out, hell I’m hoping Labour manage to figure out social media exists and use it to fight some fire with fire

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    Every single time I read something like this, I’m so glad to be out of this shithole. When Brexit happened, I moved to the EU and never looked back. Glad to have done it.

    Edit: typo.

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      In Britain alone it’s 69%, though.

      The YouGov survey, carried out in six European countries, shows 50 per cent of voters in the UK would vote to be an EU member if there was a referendum now, compared to 45 per cent and 46 per cent in France and Italy. The numbers were higher in Germany (62 per cent) Denmark (75 per cent) and Spain (66 per cent).

      It also found that in Britain, just 31 per cent of people said they would vote to be outside the EU – far fewer than the 52 per cent who backed Brexit nearly a decade ago. In France, that figure was 30 per cent, Italy 28 per cent, Germany 20 per cent, Denmark 14 per cent and Spain 13 per cent.

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        These are different questions, right?

        “Should we join?” vs. “Should we leave?”

        The first question is nonsensical for current EU members, and the second is nonsensical for non-members of the EU.

        But I guess they include them to make a better comparison between these types of questions?

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          I’m not sure, but maybe it could be formatted like “Country should be part of EU? 1 = Strongly Agree, 5 = Strongly Disagree”

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        It says 50% for, 31% against, and the remaining 19% is presumably “undecided” or the equivalent. In the context of this article, they’re interchanging UK/Britain.

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    It’s just like if you open a door for your cat and it sits down in the sweet spot between “in” and “out”.

    Would like to see UK in Schengen though…

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      Nah, it’s like when the cat asks to be let out and they go out, then immediately sit outside the window staring glumly in at you.

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      @guyoverthere123 @CAVOK only by a 4% majority, heavily skewed to the older population. Ten years later, even natural demographic change would mean we’d vote to stay in with the same referendum now - but also we’ve had a pandemic that largely affected the elderly.

      So when you say that you’re talking to dead people.

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        But much harder to take into account is how the then middle aged people who might have voted to stay in EU, are now older, became more right wing and/or dumb and/or sucked deeper into algo-propaganda.

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    Polls also showed we were going to vote remain. I wouldn’t believe what any polls say now.

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    “French and Italian voters want to leave the EU even more than British ones”

    (I didn’t even read the article, just kidding around.)