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by drumhead
1708 days ago
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There was always scepticism in the Uk about the EU, all we ever wanted out of it was free trade, but slowly they were pushing the political union agenda and each successive UK government was slowly accepting it. If any of these agreements were put British public at the time they would have been rejected but they never did. But the resentment against the free movement of EU citizens to the Uk was growing. The game was up when the EU refused to renegotiate with the UK. The main driver for the Brexit victory was immigration and that would still be a problem if the UK rejoined. But now they've left once, the taboo against leaving is gone, and if they dont like it they'll just do it again. We'll never rejoin now. As for the issues from leaving, they're temporary, they may last a couple of years but solving them isnt rocket science and they can be solved with a restructuring of the economy until things settle down. |
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The majority of the public already recognizes brexit as a failure and the numbers who share this view are only increasing. The growing recognition of the scope and breadth of the lies used to sell brexit to the public is now being felt (Farage was always viewed as a liar, but BoJo and Gove are fucked in terms of their long-term reputations.) The UK will soldier on because they are too fatalistic for their own good, but the broader populace has come to realize that the issues are not temporary, are going to last for decades at best, and that many of them will only be solved at great cost. Right now everyone is just waiting for the NI protocol to blow up so that we can see just how few friends the UK really has and learn what if feels like when the US officially turns against us on trade issues.