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by jon-wood 3524 days ago
Seriously? The people pointing out how the country is heading down a massively idiotic path because Rupert Murdoch would like us to are the UK's biggest problem?

I'm going to list a few other candidates for the UK's biggest problem:

* The pound plummeting like a rock.

* Xenophobia, bordering on fascism, being advocated by the press.

* The gradual, quiet, handing of the NHS to private companies.

* Ever growing demand for food banks, most notably by people working jobs that don't pay enough to fulfil basic needs.

* The only vaguely viable opposition to the government self-destructing right when they're needed most.

But sure, its definitely people complaining that are the problem.

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* The pound plummeting like a rock. - Expected period of adjustment.

* Xenophobia, bordering on fascism, being advocated by the press. - BBC is nothing but a continuous charity appeal.

* The gradual, quiet, handing of the NHS to private companies. - Precedes Brexit.

* Ever growing demand for food banks, most notably by people working jobs that don't pay enough to fulfil basic needs. - Precedes Brexit.

* The only vaguely viable opposition to the government self-destructing right when they're needed most. - Precedes Brexit.

Completely off-topic.

Yes, the conservatives were in before Brexit.

These things are still:

>"candidates for the UK's biggest problem"

So much focus on all the potential problems, ignoring all the potential benefits. This is why the world is the way it is.
How much of the potential benefits were discussed during the Brexit campaign? I thought the campaign mainly focused on the (perceived) negatives of the current arrangement?
All the potential benefits are blatant lies.

Brexit doesn't give £350m to the NHS. Brexit doesn't get us out of ECHR (and that wouldn't be a benefit anyway, since ECHR agrees with UK on over 99% of cases). Brexit doesn't give us control over our spending. Brexit doesn't give us control over immigration.