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The UK votes to leave the European Union
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Newtype-001
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The shade being thrown on my twitter timeline is the only thing keeping me alive right now
Because their romanticized notion of "sovereignty" and "getting rid of those darn immigrants" trumped every single fact saying it would actually be bad for everyone.
GHG
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This is GAF. This is the Internet.
Did you not see the reactions when iterative consoles were first talked about? It's all fine and dandy now with the exception of a few people who have chosen to stick their flag in the sand.
Jimbob Smalls
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Good, exports needs it.
The members are already in revolt according to labour party headquarters. Corbyn's base is the single group that was most in favour of the EU - white, middle class London liberals. I am not convinced he survives.
Magic Mushroom
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Because many voters are completely ignorant.
she actually said "should be" lol
Cornwall is poor and receives a lot of money from the EU because of it.Sölf;208213290 said:
Cornwall voted overwhelmingly in favour of leave.
Cornwall County Council are now asking Westminster to guarantee that they would get the same amount of money from Westminster that they would have gotten from the EU by staying.
I'd say the majority of people voting out were votes based on emotion, fuelled by racism.
The ironic thing is it won't suddenly make the UK "white". Skin colour alone has no relevance on whether somone is English. The same way you don't have to be white to be American.
Many of the immigrants that originally came to the UK years ago have several generations in the country, many of which are technically British. This won't effect those people.
I'll wonder how funny they find their vote when the Jeremy Kyle special guests get their JSA reduced.
But it's ok because all the jobs the coloured people took will be free.....So maybe they can find work now.
Because too many people are ignorant idiots
ThoughtsOfSpeaking
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Again, a personal/idological problem, not something that should of tempered enthusiasm to at least get people out to vote.
Farage was ostrisised by everyone, but he made sure he got out there and pushed as hard as he could regardless.
Rofl. Well, yeah, that will probably turn out well, right? Thanks!
Yeah, it's a privatised industry. It seeks a profit.
IMO banks should be nationalised. What benefit is there to somebody holding your money only if they can keep you in debt to them at the same time? And these same people fucking up the housing and mortgage landscape? They should be in competition with other countries' banks, not their own customers.
probably because this thread (and social media at large) are young(er) and liberal and there's way more uncertainty about 10 years from now than 10 minutes.
look at the stats. "Fuck you, got mine" won.
Hopefully energy costs don't go up.
Fuck me sideways
Cornwall voted 57-43 to leave
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Exactly. The reality is that (from a trade standpoint) if a beneficial situation exists for all parties under EU rule, it makes sense to try and maintain it even with a non-EU UK.
Supply/demand and geography aren't changing after all!
AHA-Lambda
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this is actually pretty accurate
Not surprised about Corbyn. People were unhappy about him being leader anyway, but his participation in the remain campaign wasn't particularly great. While refreshing, his bluntness during the campaign was not what it needed. He also seemed very half arsed about it, it was fairly clear that he didn't himself feel very strongly about remaining and was doing it solely because he had to as the leader.
Labour in general were mostly a disappointment in the campaign, and the results proved it, so many Labour constituencies voted Leave despite the MP's backing Remain.
*facepalm*
Labour in general were mostly a disappointment in the campaign, and the results proved it, so many Labour constituencies voted Leave despite the MP's backing Remain.
Cornwall voted 57-43 to leave
*facepalm*
Jzero
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They are, they shouldn't drive either, fucking slow as snails and crashing into everything.
Cornwall voted 57-43 to leave
How can people be so incredibly, incredibly dumb?
MrS
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Cornwall voted 57-43 to leave
I fail to see why that would happen. The UK doesn't exactly have the upper hand in the negotiations and the EU will want to make damn sure that other nations don't follow the UK example.
No, because the groups who are interested in getting us out of the EU generally have a broader anti-immigration policy in general. Farage himself presumably won't be happy until he gets to stand at an armed immigration point in Calais personally deciding whether any potential migrants look like the 'good' or the 'bad' kind.
AHA-Lambda
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Still early I guess
Labour has been ignoring its traditional base for decades now. It's not a ridiculous notion to consider the possibility of UKIP doing an end run around Labour just like the SNP did in Scotland.
Compared to yesterday. And historically.
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Look at Cornwall. Those are the kind of people who voted.
People who refused to learn about the UN and the EU during History class. They disrupted other students learning and talked back to teachers.
We gave those people a vote on this.
More Fun To Compute
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Protests about what? Anti democracy protests? Anti poor and old people protests?
MassiveNights
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No one is saying they are dumb. What they are is spoilt and self-serving.
PJV3
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Blairite and centrists could win the party but they only want to compromise with Tories. It isn't going to work like 97, the base will simply piss off.
The only chance that works is the country being in ruins after Boris fucks it all up.
Yup, no more brown or Polish people, they've all left today.
Because a lot of people are delusional and don't know the conseqeunces of their actions.
jellies_two
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I don't like this narrative that older people's votes don't count as much because they have less time left, it's childish, the flip side is older people have kids and care deeply about their futures so actually one could argue if you are doing the maths this way that an old vote could be worth more than a young one because it frequently includes dependents who are too young to vote. But the fact is, for better or worse, votes are about equal.
So look somewhere else to blame a decision you dislike. Ageism is immaturity. Either that or kill your grandparents because their life experience counts for nothing and they have little time left anyway, right?
So look somewhere else to blame a decision you dislike. Ageism is immaturity. Either that or kill your grandparents because their life experience counts for nothing and they have little time left anyway, right?
Hilarious and saddening
UpDownLeftRight
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They voted for this mess. It's not even debatable that they know fuck all at this point. But of course I should trust in their 'wisdom' considering most of them will be dead while carry on their shit storm based in ignorance.
michaelius
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Show me any proof that Uk isn't payer netto to EU if it's so easy to demonstrate it's not true.
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