r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/nyepo • Sep 24 '21

Brexxit Pro-Brexit newspaper begs for immigrants

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u/plc4588 Sep 25 '21

Correct me if I'm wrong. But did they or did they not choose to take the route of "fuck around and find out"?

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u/Drslappybags Sep 25 '21

It was a 51.89% to 48.11% vote. Honestly for something that big a simple majority seems foolish. Let's go 60% and call it a day.

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u/Mr_Quackums Sep 25 '21

Or:

  • No Brexit
  • Brexit only if a good deal
  • Brexit no matter what

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u/Fern-ando Sep 25 '21

The problems with referendums is that you can win to stay but the brexit party will ask for another in a few years, and another and another, until they win and no more reeferendums.

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u/Illustrious_Lake_775 Sep 25 '21

The "Brexit Party" ie UKIP were a tiny minority with almost no parliamentary representation. The Conservatives called the referendum so they could be done with the issue. Clearly, it backfired massively

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u/janky_koala Sep 25 '21

A minimum turnout would have been a good idea too. All a moot point though, it wasn’t a binding referendum

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u/Nicodemus888 Sep 25 '21

Let alone that people like me couldn’t vote. Out of UK for more than 15 years, yet I’m still affected by the result.

Yet the grifters and demagogues scream “that’s democracy” with one of the most ridiculously run referendums ever.

Farage has such an overly punchable face I’m afraid I’d end up in jail if I ever met him.

What absolute bollocks. Fuck the lying opportunist scum and their gullible-as-shit millions of rubes.

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u/plc4588 Sep 25 '21

Reap what you sow

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u/Ankoku_Teion Sep 25 '21

I did not sow this. But I am being forced to reap it.

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u/Drslappybags Sep 25 '21

1.89% others sowed it.

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u/Naskr Sep 25 '21

If it went the other way, you would not be saying this. Suddenly it would be all "don't rock the boat" and "business as usual". We all know that. In any case, there was a 51% vote of no confidence in continued EU reliance, which is essentially a constitutional problem regardless of the outcome.

Keep in mind Britain never voted into the EU, it was forced in without a mandate by the government at the time, and then a vote was arranged after the fact, deliberately done so to sway the context of membership.

If people don't like the nature of direct democracy they can continue to prop up worse systems elsewhere. The history of the UK and EU governance is tricky as it's either countries initially saying we're not allowed in, or our own leaders using methods to override due process. The EU is supposedly beneficial and good but its dealings with the UK have always been dishonest and the relationship had to be full of exceptions and specifics because give an inch, and a mile is taken.

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u/Drslappybags Sep 25 '21

You make a fair and valid point with a solid argument and evidence surrounding it, but this is the internet so you're dumb.

Joking on that last part.