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[–] msage@programming.dev 77 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Brexit can't be reversed, but UK can join the EU under new agreements.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And no special treatment this time hopefully

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They’ll be required to bark like a dog.

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As an Australian I'd bark like a dog if we were ever invited to join, fuck the UK they had their chance, had a sweetheart deal and fucked themselves over.

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 points 6 days ago

No joke, I'd love for Australia to join the EU xD it'd be funny af.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I will happily bark like a dog if you let my house join.

Atreides? Is that you?

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 week ago (4 children)

A majority of voters never wanted brexit in the first place, but they were either.

  • too dumb to realise it.
  • they were lied to and manipulated into voting the wrong way by mainstream media and politicians
  • they didn't read the fine prints
  • they were just racist.
  • all of the above
[–] chewables@piefed.social 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

my dumbass stupid boyfriend voted for brexit and I mock him for it relentlessly because we are both men.

ultimately, a simple referendum should never have been acted on to this extent, but it was what the racist tories wanted so they had to push it through (cunts)

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At least he has a pretty face, right?

[–] chewables@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago

yeah 😊

[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

and they still reward Farage

[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Farage is like a cockroach. He'll keep surviving and finding a new place to emerge from with the same aim: get sustainence and spread shit when no one's looking

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

But . . . They had a bus! With stuff written on it!

C’mon, that’s as close to god’s own truth as can be!

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago

And the NHS has so much money right now as promised on that bus!

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

And by law, busses may carry flat out lies πŸ‘

[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Nooo, once the propah Brexit is achieved, it'll so much bettah /s

[–] regdog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I would say before Brexit can be reversed a big part of the population needs some better education about politics and social economic issues.

Without that, people will just chose the populist option again.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 week ago

This is why if you're going to put major difficult to reverse decisions to a referendum, you should require a supermajority to take action.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When cats do that it's because they expected you to follow them outside. They just wanted to roam around with their bud.

[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 1 points 6 days ago

From what I have heard, it's more about cats liking to have free access to their territory. They don't care that the garden and you house are an indoor/outdoor situation. They're both part of cat's territory and cat does not like to not be cut off from pat of his/her kingdom.

The only part of the equation where human fits in is that we are part of cat's property and so cat is entitled to have access to hinanden at all times as well. We are territory.

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Those older voters that were Pro-Brexit in 2016, well, a lot of them are dead ten years later.

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Egotistical assholes*, you mean?

[–] GMac@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

Glad someone else pointed this out.
It's disingenuous of the article to suggest opinions have changed, I dont think they have.
The demograpgic of those aroynd to comment today is different. There was low turnout amongst younger voters while the older population both turned out and voted leave. We now have 10 years of older voters, ~60% of whom wanted to leave. And we have 10 years of new voters who werent given a say, but extrapolating the data should be about 80% in favour of EU membership.

The baby boomers have expoited disproportionate volume representation their entire lives. As that volume bubble dies off, i hope we will coninue to see better social and environmental responsibility, alongside progressive, collaborative, and inclusive longer term thinking.

[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nice assertion. Too bad there isn't a single fucking number or specific statistic in the entire article to back it up. Terrible journalism.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Feelings sell.

[–] Quantillion@mstdn.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@fireweed @CAVOK
So you're not aware of any of the 500-odd surveys on Brexit conducted since 2016?
Have you signed up for Curtice's Newsletter?

[–] nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The job of a journalist includes adding sources to back up the conclusion. Going looking for them yourself is just reinforcing whatever the article is saying.

[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Dearest England,

     πŸ–•  

Love,

Europe.

Well yeah. Especially with current state of affairs in the UK.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 13 points 1 week ago

Majority doesn't matter. It's flip flopping around 50% and they will voteΒ Brexit again at the next opportunity.

Take them in when 66% or better 75% want to join again.

[–] marius@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] crandlecan@mander.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Da's een nee, ja toch?

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The UK, a place that overthrew and then brought back its monarchy. πŸ€£πŸ˜‚πŸ€£

[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

UK never overthrew the monarchy. K is for kingdom

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You should learn about Oliver Cromwell

[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wasn't that like in 1600? I thought you referred to UK as a modern political entity (post Irish free state). I could see it being stretched to 1700 but before that there was no united kingdom, there were multiple entities governed by the same ruler else articles of union and acts or union would be a nothing burger

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

And yet, it’s hard to imagine there being a king if they hadn’t restored Charles II.

[–] evujumenuk@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Pull a Moldova. Join Ireland and enter the EU that way.

[–] practisevoodoo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My biggest issue with the vote was that Brexit didn't win.

48% votes to remain and 52% percent votes for 6 different and often mutually exclusive relationships. Which was proven as soon as negotiations began and why there should have been a vote on the final deal which would have certainly failed. But instead people voting for a Norway model or a Swiss model all got counted alongside the lunatics that would have physically dragged the UK further into the Atlantic to get away from Europe given the chance.

It wasn't 48% Vs 52%, it was 48% vs 8% and 8% and 8% .......

[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev -1 points 1 week ago

Not a true Scotsman, but applied to Brexit

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

why havnt they done it in 10years? surely the first few years of economy going down the drain would expedite the process.

[–] kunaltyagi@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

People complained that the Brexit wasn't a proper one. And a proper one would improve economy

[–] slickgoat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Feelings against brexit was always a thing, getting off their arse and actually voting against it was the problem.