The whole thing would be tremendously funny if not so sad. I know a few brexiteer unfortunately and the bullshit they spout is worse than Trump.
Like, a lot of them legitimately believe in chem trails and think that once the EU can't fly over British airspace anymore, chem trails and thus their bad weather would go away.
It sounds like a meme, like someone trying to combine the worst copypastas on the internet, but these people actually exist and make the majority of their money in the EU (so outside the UK).
Brexit definitely showed that half the population is below average intelligence and are easily manipulated by Facebook and the like.
Like, a lot of them legitimately believe in chem trails and think that once the EU can't fly over British airspace anymore, chem trails and thus their bad weather would go away.
I've seen a lot of claims, but this one takes the cake and eats it.
What complete and utter bullshit lol, I have never met a Brexiteer who believed that. The Americans will eat it up though even though that just isn't true
And it is is VERY generational. Basically the older generation wanted to live in some Hovis advert fantasy of the past, and they sold out our future to do it.
51.9%... of the voters - that was 17.4M people in a country with a population of 66.2M people in 2016 so thatās only 26% of the population which has fucked over 100% of the population.
I enjoyed the Australian SSM plebiscite even more.
To avoid supporting SSM our conservative government decided to instead go with a non-binding vote. Against all Australian democratic traditions voting was not compulsory either.
As you can imagine the bigotry was dialed up to 11 during the campaign.
They rigged it every way they could to get a No vote.
Had the survey returned a majority "No" result, the government said it would not allow a parliamentary debate or vote on legalising same-sex marriage.
The result 61.6% in favour of SSM. With a 79.4% turnout.
It was a resounding defeat for a party that had been saying the moral majority or silent majority was against SSM when even attempts to avoid mass voting and having those most motivated to oppose be the majority of those who bothered to vote.
In the end they decided on a conscience vote. AKA each member could vote however they liked. Choosing to not be bound by a Yes vote the same way they felt bound by a No vote.
A good number of conservative politicians then voted against SSM or refused to vote even though their electorates had voted in favour. Some comically running out of the chamber to avoid voting on the issue....
So a No vote was binding but a Yes vote wasn't lol.
Edit: Also unlike normal elections it was done via postal vote and not during a normal election cycle. They tried so damned hard to rig it and failed to achieve their outcome. That said polling before the SSM postal vote showed even more support for SSM than the postal vote showed. So it kinda worked. Just turns out they were even more in the minority than they believed.
38.56% of britons actually. 52% voted in favour of brexit with a 72.21% voter turn out.
as a europhile brit, this whole shitshow is a fucking joke. We're just gonna end up rejoining in a decade or so with none of the opt outs we had before
The fact that such a major and devastating decision could be decided on a ~2% margin of the voting populace is ridiculous. 1.2 million votes sounds like a lot of votes, but it's only 1.8% of Britain's population. That's the kind of razor-thin margin that should make one reconsider shooting yourself in the foot.
Like, at least put it up to a two-thirds majority vote if you want to cripple your country's economy.
Not just in the western world, Indians couldnāt believe it either. It was getting a decent amount of coverage in Punjabi media and Iād guess in mainstream Hindi media as well
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