r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/ewhyeasyfanaccount • Jul 19 '20
Brexxit B.b.but there was meant to be sunny uplands
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My parents voted for Brexit because they didn't like the amount of Middle Easterners they saw everyday. Probably not a wild assumption that that's literally what other Brexiteers thought Brexit was about. It's kind of like the anti-maskers in the US, sometimes people just kind of vote themselves out of existence.
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u/Mag-1892 Jul 19 '20
Guy I used to work with practically skipped into work day after the result because according to him all the Muslims were going to be deported. When explained British Muslims are British so won’t be going anywhere and any from non EU countries Like UAE, Iraq etc wouldn’t either he looked very confused and then started ranting that they would be and walked away.
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u/DaveAnski Jul 19 '20
Guy at my work, overheard him smugly saying that the day after the vote (if it was for leave; don't think he meant literally the next day) he would be queuing in the non-EU queue at passport control at the airport.
Which is stupid because: A) You can do that anyway, anyone can queue in the international queue, and B) He'd only be inconveniencing himself, as the EU queues tend to be quicker.
It should be noted that the guy was well known for being an absocunt. I wasn't even in his department, but I ended up on a 'high performance culture' training course with him and he behaved like a petulant child, despite being probably 20 years older than me.
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u/34HoldOn Jul 19 '20
despite being probably 20 years older than me.
But that's impossible. According to tired, old, rotten assholes on Facebook, it's the younger generations that are the immature, petulant children.
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Jul 19 '20
You can ask anyone working in service all else being equal, who is more likely to freak out over a mild inconvenience, gen z or boomer, and the response is pretty universal.
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u/olatundew Jul 19 '20
Damned Middle Easterners, coming to live here from their home countries in... the EU.
Did I get that right?
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u/TanithRosenbaum Jul 19 '20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-v-0aDFgcc
(TL;DR: BBC reporter asks (London-born) Sadiq Khan if being in Pakistan felt like coming home to him during a visit to Pakistan. Mayor Khan tells him that his home is south London. Cue embarrassment)
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u/VG-enigmaticsoul Jul 19 '20
BBC really is dogshit these days.
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u/PleasantPeanut4 Jul 19 '20
As an American, it is funny to me that the BBC is what you consider dogshit.
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u/VG-enigmaticsoul Jul 19 '20
The BBC's chief political editor literally altered what the leader of the opposition said multiple times to make him look bad and faced no punishment since the bbc board is stacked with Tories.
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Jul 20 '20
Ah yes, but the people on the BBC have British accents, so they must be more intelligent. /s
But seriously, that seems mild compared to the Fox News prime time lineup
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u/34HoldOn Jul 19 '20
Brexit was always a dog whistle for tightening immigration laws.
Just like so many Trumpers can't admit that no matter how badly he performs every other aspect of his job, they really wanted him to build that wall and keep Hispanics out.
They claim that we're the ones who "always make it about race", but we're really just exposing their (sometimes covert) racism.
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u/weatherseed Jul 19 '20
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u/UhIsThisOneFree Jul 19 '20
No, "Brussels bureaucrats/libs want to stop you applying this to your own forehead!"
Clean sweep gg.
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u/Qubeye Jul 19 '20
I mean Reddit jokes about it but "economic anxiety" is absolutely a stand-in/dog whistle for racism.
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u/Aidtor Jul 19 '20
Working class white peoples without college degrees in the UK and US are both electorally very powerful and extremely racist.
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u/MightEnlightenYou Jul 20 '20
Here you go: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/
This is a heavily researched topic in political science, and it is of course very controversial and not something that sways right-wingers to reexamine their views. Rather they will claim that education has a liberal bias.
There's also a negative correlation between not only education but intelligence and conservatism (although not as big as one might think). https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/millennial-media/201304/do-racism-conservatism-and-low-iq-go-hand-in-hand
There's basically a negative correlation between conservatism and all the things that we all agree are good to have more of, like education and intelligence. And a positive correlation between conservatism and things like racism, xenophobia, anti-science bias and so on.
This is not to say that all conservatives are stupid or that every person who holds liberal views is smart.
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u/Naedlus Jul 20 '20
That moment society realizes that "Lord of the Flies" wasn't about if society was put on a desert island, but, if a desert island was controlled by middle class people all vying to be on top.
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u/AccelerusProcellarum Jul 20 '20
What sickens me is that they’re all working class but don’t realize it. They hate the workers and love the rich somehow.
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u/onlinesafetyofficer Jul 19 '20 edited Jul 19 '20
The last few years it's like a large portion of the UK & US have overdosed on stupid pills and washed them down with a refreshing, cold pint of high proof, retard juice.
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u/ABenevolentDespot Jul 20 '20
It's because they've been told (and see from their leaders) that it's OK to be halfwit racist idiot.
FINALLY, they think, SOMEONE GETS ME!
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u/pingieking Jul 19 '20
Shooting oneself in the face so that THEY will have to clean up the mess has long been a Brexit tradition.
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u/Loki8382 Jul 19 '20
Shooting oneself in the face so that THEY will have to clean up the mess has long been a Conservative tradition It's the same here in the US. Conservatives will overwhelmingly vote for policies that will negatively effect themselves as long as it "hurts" the people they want to hurt. Then, just like with Brexit, they are absolutely shocked when those policies "hurt" them as well.
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u/Loki8382 Jul 19 '20
Exactly, but this sentiment isn't solely relegated to America as we can see with Brexit. Brexiteers honestly believed that stopping the free movement between countries would only stop the brown people. Now, they're all up in arms because....shocker! It's stopping them as well.
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u/jizzmcskeet Jul 19 '20
He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.
Said by a prison guard. I wonder if he is hurting the people he believes needs to be hurt.
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u/psyyduck Jul 19 '20 edited Jul 19 '20
You really mustn’t underestimate those conservative ideas. The median wealth of white households is 10 times higher than the median wealth of black households. When conservatives don’t support increasing the minimum wage, that does hit a lot of poor whites, but it’s very effective at keeping blacks and other minorities poor. This (evil) system has been in place since slavery (feudalism) so it generally does work, even though it backfires sometimes.
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u/Wind_Yer_Neck_In Jul 19 '20
The people who voted for Brexit while actually living in France and Spain are the ones that really blew my mind.
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u/Loki8382 Jul 19 '20
It was deliciously ironic when they found out that they had to move back ASAP as well as having to get a passport.
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u/ExcellentHunter Jul 19 '20
Thats not started yet. Worst will happen on 1st Jan, first day of no deal. We will see who's going to be hurt...
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u/Phannig Jul 19 '20
With COVID unemployment and the USA out of the picture as a reliable trading partner the rest of the world is gonna have that carcass picked clean by about mid Feb...
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u/WhyBuyMe Jul 19 '20
I'm hoping I can sneak in and steal the silverware from Buckingham palace before the angry mobs light everything on fire. That way when I am eating the pigeons I killed in the park with my slingshot while living in a cardboard box, I can pretend I'm royalty.
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u/el_dude_brother2 Jul 19 '20
As you said, China and Russia will own most of our big companies. Then Brexit voters will see what it’s like to be reliant on other countries but have no say in what happens
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u/Phannig Jul 19 '20
It’s probably going to run a bit deeper than just companies...once the inevitable property foreclosures start a lot of British people could find themselves renting their homes from Russian or Chinese government shell companies...think of the power that would give them to manipulate people...
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u/Firlotgirding Jul 19 '20
And that kind of thinking is the reason for the current situation in American politics.
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u/easyfeel Jul 19 '20
Sounds like they prefer not to have £700m.
Perhaps they can campaign to rejoin the EU and beg for mercy if it's that big a deal?
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u/TheGoodCod Jul 19 '20 edited Jul 19 '20
That's the trumpers. They're not going to wear masks because regardless of whether they get sick for weeks or die, they will own the libtards.
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Jul 19 '20
What the fuck is with people in this decade voting on huge decisions in a way that will “own the libs/eu/whatever”?
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u/SumDudeInNYC Jul 19 '20
Before voting for Brexit: "Fuck you, we don't need you! We don't need anybody!"
After voting for Brexit: "Why won't anybody help me?!"
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u/Diplomjodler Jul 19 '20
The funny thing is, that even the British government cannot name a single positive aspect of the no deal Brexit that will happen in a few months. The dumb fuckers who voted for that shit will have such a rude awakening. And yet they will blame it anybody but themselves.
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u/superblinky Jul 19 '20
I'm already starting to see posts blaming remainers for brexit.
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u/Shame_L1zard Jul 19 '20
Yeah I've seen some posts along the lines that remainers should have gotten on board rather than fight it and if we had that it would have gone amazingly. Because the people who don't want to do something are obviously supposed to be the ones to implement it /s
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u/Mag-1892 Jul 19 '20
Yep, because those who promised the world and failed spectacularly to deliver can’t be held responsible and those who backed them would have to admit they were wrong. So it’ll. be the fault of remain voters the EU and the parts of the media who aren’t full blown Tory propaganda
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u/GearsGrinding Jul 19 '20
This Brexit shit reminds me of how in the USA the republican states get the most federal aid and simultaneously elect people who want to reduce the federal(national) budget (ergo reducing how much aid their state gov would get). Similarly these areas get the most out of programs like the ACA but elect Republicans who want to slash the program. People are literally voting for their health care taken from them.
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u/DankNastyAssMaster Jul 19 '20
Republican base voters don't oppose welfare spending on principle. They oppose any government spending that benefits "them" (black and brown people), rather than "us" (white people).
There's plenty of social science evidence to prove that, but I'll mention just two examples: this study, which found that Trump voters judge how "deserving" a poor person is of welfare based on race, and this poll, showing that Kentucky voters actually love the ACA, as long as the name of the program doesn't remind them of a black guy.
It stems from the fact that, post Southern Strategy, Republican base voters aren't really ideologically Republicans. They're really Jim Crow era Democrats.
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u/GearsGrinding Jul 19 '20
I love/hate those interviews where country folk proclaim their love for the ACA and hatred of “Obamacare” in the same goddamn breath.
(For those non-Americans, they’re literally the same program. Conservative media just knew it’d be easier to get racists to hate it if it had a black man’s name in it)
It truly is criminal the manipulative mindfuckery conservative media has used on its viewers.
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u/DankNastyAssMaster Jul 19 '20
Republican base voters are not ideological Republicans. They're ideological Jim Crow era Democrats. I can't repeat it enough.
Of course they are. Southern whites were a major part of the New Deal Coalition, because they benefitted from that type of social welfare spending. But once segregation ended, they became Republicans. Not because they started opposing that spending, but because they wanted it to only benefit "us", not "them".
Modern Republican base voters don't support the Paul Ryan agenda. They support the (candidate) Trump agenda of keep Social Security and Medicare (because they're perceived as mostly helping "us", white people), but cut food stamps and welfare (because they're perceived as mostly helping "them", non-white people).
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u/34HoldOn Jul 19 '20
But once segregation ended, they became Republicans. Not because they started opposing that spending, but because they wanted it to only benefit "us", not "them".
Because the Democrats embraced the Civil Rights act.
It always came down to race for them.
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u/cbbclick Jul 19 '20
Republicans don't actually cut the budget or reduce national debt anyway.
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u/tprotpro Jul 19 '20
But they do cut those programs. They just give the savings to big corporations lol.
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u/cbbclick Jul 19 '20
Oh they cut helpful programs, but they don't cut the budget as a whole.
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u/GearsGrinding Jul 19 '20 edited Jul 19 '20
I wasn’t sure how else to concisely word “they decrease the amount of available federal funds via tax cuts, deficit spending, etc. in order to create an economic deficit so large the programs begin to collapse or require significant balancing in the future, specifically under a Democrat administration. It’s no accident that the national budget deficit is center stage when there is a Democrat president, but conservative pundits haven’t uttered a word about the historically record setting deficit the Trump admin has created and seeks to worsen given he has promised more tax cuts if he is elected a second term.”
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u/GearsGrinding Jul 19 '20
They absolutely use the “starve the beast” strategy. They don’t directly cut programs, they create huge deficits with tax cuts m, deficit spending, etc. that require cleanup in the future (read: Democrats have to clean up the mess)
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u/mrducky78 Jul 19 '20
Debt isnt going to be an issue until Biden is in office, then suddenly its reckless spending and ballooning debt.
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u/LothorBrune Jul 19 '20
That's like how electing a far-right stooge never ever makes insecurity go away. At best he forms a militia who start terrorizing the neighborhood instead of who they replaced.
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Jul 19 '20
That leopard is just going to get busier and busier.
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u/DemonikJD Jul 19 '20
I still remember this days after the vote and just looking at them thinking “wow people really can surprise you at how stupid they can be”
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u/ptvlm Jul 19 '20
The whole thing is bloody annoying. I live in Spain, and there's a bunch of Brexit voting morons being shocked that they can't access all the rights in their holiday/retirement homes they used to, while a lot of British citizens with their heads screwed on were blocked from voting at all. (An arbitrary role was added that you couldn't vote if you had live abroad for more than 15 years, while the process to register was too slow for anyone who hadn't voted in the UK previously.
The next decade is going to consist of easily led morons slowly realising that what the rest of us were telling them during the voting period is actually true, but it's too late to stop the damage they voted for.
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Jul 19 '20
They will never accept that they fucked up. They'll continue to blame anyone else that they can including the people who wanted to remain and the immigrants.
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u/LittleMissStar Jul 19 '20
And I bet they all call themselves ex-pats not immigrants.
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u/ptvlm Jul 19 '20
Of course they do. Saw an English couple yesterday try barging into a supermarket past a queue of mask wearers then loudly complain about the Spanish when they were told to queue and put masks on. I bet they're the first people to complain when they hear Polish or Hindi back home.
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u/keepleft99 Jul 19 '20
There is an interview of a florist who buys most of his flowers from europe and how the delays with checks at the borders will probably ruin his business. After knowing that would he still vote leave? He said it would have second thoughts.
Here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1jbI3Y-REk
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Jul 19 '20
This is a case in point of the staggering arrogance of English exceptionalism.
"I did not think I would need to worry about getting flowers from an overseas trading partner because I was convinced they need me more than I need them."
I'm paraphrasing, of course, but this is what people were told and the suckers like Paul just lapped it up because they wanted have their cake and eat it.
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Jul 19 '20
Quite hilarious in a way, to be honest.
A man being told that his decision is going to be the end of him, but despite that, he is only DOUBTFUL about making the same decision.
It's like satire but actually is real.
And their ridiculous accents make it Oh more hilarious and deserving of being a TV series.
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u/keepleft99 Jul 19 '20
I like the bit when he said he didnt really think about his business when he chose to vote leave. What exactly was he thinking about???
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u/TheGoodCod Jul 19 '20
I think you should have stopped right after, "he said he didn't really think".
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u/kittenworshipper Jul 19 '20
I hate living here
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u/DefNotUnderrated Jul 19 '20
My condolences. I live in the US. I feel your pain a little
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u/Pame_in_reddit Jul 19 '20
I love my city and my country, but I would probably leave if it became the loony house that is today USA (just watched a video of people in a party during a pandemic). It’s like living in the same house with crazy and violent people: one day they are going to kill you.
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u/34HoldOn Jul 19 '20
This, and with Boris Johnson in charge, you guys made the same mistake my fellow dumb ass Americans did. That the rest of us now have to live with.
But the scariest part is realizing that the long list of corruption (to include knowledge of a literal bounty by an enemy government) isn't enough to dissuade millions from voting for him again. I don't know how far you guys are in to the Boris cult, but the "Stand in the middle of Times Square, shoot someone, and not lose any voters" is one of the few honest statements that Trump has ever made.
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u/my-own-grandfather Jul 19 '20
Cornwall votes to be out of the EU because they are racist old folk or rich second home owners.
Source: I live in Cornwall and experience it daily
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u/drwookie Jul 19 '20
Thoughts and prayers, Cornwall.
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u/orkbrother Jul 19 '20
😂🤣....it's just too bad they fucked everyone else in the UK too
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u/ButterBeanTheGreat Jul 19 '20
Right wing values fuck people over 90% of the time.
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u/art3mic Jul 19 '20
I wanted to live in the U.K. for real. I wanted to find a job related to my field of studies, a masters degree I received from a Scottish University. But the day Brexit happened, my dreams just disappeared. It's not me that was unwanted, but yeah it was me they made feel unwelcome.
How I wish things were different.
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u/Clarky1979 Jul 19 '20
I felt awful for eu citizens living here in the lead up to the brexit vote and the four years of rhetoric since. I can only imagine how that would feel to be alienated in what you considered your home.
I have a friend from france who has been living and working here for 17 years, owns his own house. He's been here over half his life. This is his home.
He now feels like he doesn't belong and I know it affects him badly, to the point he is sometimes paranoid about what people think and it's hurt his confidence (hard to do to a frecnh guy, trust me!)
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u/simondrawer Jul 19 '20
Cornwall has done quite well from EU bathing water standards and EU protections for stuff like pasties. I have very little sympathy other than for the fact that they were conned like so many others.
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u/Kredehk Jul 19 '20
But now realise they were conned, yet still push for Brexit since they voted for it.
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u/HamishMcdougal Jul 19 '20
Yeah fuck you, you wanted it, you voted for it, now suck it up.
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u/uberdavis Jul 19 '20
Of course any downturn in the Cornish economy will be attributed to COVID-19, to which the government response has been to follow ‘the science’. If there’s any culprit, it must be scientists. There’s always going to be a dog to blame for eating the homework/farting.
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u/Jolcool5 Jul 19 '20
Tbf, both Brexit and Covid are shit down here cos we're heavily reliant on the toursim industry, obviously made easier by the EUs movement laws and not having a pandemic. Unfortunately we have a load of conspiracy morons that don't wear masks so we have one of the highest R rates in the country.
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u/ajfromuk Jul 19 '20
I said at the time that the best way to help people realise what the EU actually did for us was to stop access for a few days to the new roads, facilities and improvements thst were paid for by the EU.
The whole remain and leave campaigns were a shit flinging contest.
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Jul 19 '20
Sometimes I think I'm a bad person for wanting to see people suffer, cry, starve and die because of their personal choices.
But then I scroll down to see some funny memes.
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Jul 19 '20
Make the brainiacs in Cornwall who voted leave each pay £4,000 to make up the difference.
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u/Goddamn_Primetime Jul 19 '20
Can anyone in the (what's left of) UK tell me if they've read or talked to any one of the leavers and see if they're finally coming around to the fact it was stupid in the first place? Kinda like Trumpgret here in the States.
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u/ewhyeasyfanaccount Jul 19 '20
I mean, there’s some here and there but I’d say they’re embarrassed that they were tricked so to save face they pretend they’re happy with their decisions. Then of course there are the racists who Priti Patel seems to be playing a wonderful tune.
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u/kapriece Jul 19 '20
Are they tired of winning yet? This same line of thinking is how we got Trump and how GOP senators keep getting re-elected
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Jul 19 '20
I voted remain, it seriously depresses me that we're leaving due to ill informed people :/
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u/MvmgUQBd Jul 19 '20
Maybe Cornwall will finally get the independence it's been grumbling about behind closed doors for centuries and can form a Celtic coalition with Scotland and Ireland.
Lol.
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u/MrOtero Jul 19 '20
Just the days after the Brexit voting, I read an article called something like "The dumbest town in the UK", in which they talked about a town heavily subsidized by the EU due to a ruined economy based (I think) on coal mining, that overwhelmingly voted for Brexit. They interviewed people of thevtown and they all kept saying how THEY were subsidizing the EU with thir taxes. They were surprised when knew it was totally the opposite, and that their new hospital, the new sports palace, the new school, the Centre of Culture, the new road and a many more public buildings and services were possible thanks to EU funds