A bunch of leavers probably died of covid.
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I knew a guy in Wales who was sick of constantly having to tell people he told them so after a few years.
damn leopards again
No second Brexit?
I love that sudden change in attitude the moment they actually leave. shows how once something actually happens, your instinct of denial kicks in, hoping you did the right thing even if you thought it was wrong before. didn't last long of course.
My conspiracy hat on, the only reason the right to leave was high was due to Russian interference. Now that their interests are focused elsewhere and they're being sanctioned to high shit what you're seeing now is the real results. Britain was never overwhelmingly for Brexit.
That's my conspiracy anyways.
Since when exatcly was that a secret? Im pretty sure Nigel Farage was bought by russians a long time ago. And im pretty sure he was one of the main reasons brexit happened. Alghtough im not from uk so maybe there was someone more influential internaly in UK.
That's not a conspiracy IMO. Dividing the west is on their agenda clear and open.
They stopped because they got what they wanted, the UK left, what are they going to do, leave more :-) ?
Eh. Just because Russia published and distributed books to its governmental members and most useful idiots explicitly calling for a propaganda campaign to decouple the UK from the EU doesn't mean the propaganda campaign didn't work.
Maybe it's too early(coffee not started working) but what exactly are you trying to say please?
Russia published its fascist gameplan for global dominance, in book form, distributed it to their paid agents and government staff, and that plan included actionable steps with specific goals such as decoupling Britain from the EU.
I do not believe the author is a genius of strategic and political thought, but I do believe one of the leading industrial powers of the world decided to put the general idea of his plans into action, and it has largely worked because no one bothered to stop it.
As you said, when their objective was met, Russian propaganda moved on to new targets, and without a deluge of propaganda to sustain public opinion it evaporated in the face of obvious reality.
Tl;Dr the voters were gained through Russian propaganda programs and the support dried up with their shift to new goals, as reality began to penetrate the "minds" of the "independent thinkers" they swayed.
OP claimed British people never supported it at all.
They did. Or at least enough to vote in majority. A large number of gullible morons bought it hook, line, and sinker.
Oh exactly, missed the OP claim though.
There were some other plan from the seventies(?) IIRC, detailing out how to destabilise Europe and the USA by some Dugin like guy. Can't remember his name :-/
I keenly remember how one of the things the Leavers were pushing as a benefit of leaving the EU was to be able to get closer to the US. Oopsie...
Yet another in a long line of bollocks from the Brexiters, swallowed by a large percentage of the British Electorate (not just in the Referendum but even in Parliamentary Elections after it where they repeatedly voted the Leave leaders into Government).
Mind you, as somebody who left the country after that (I was an EU immigrant over there for more than a decade) I still look at Britain as guide for the rest of Europe, since they seem to have been 10 years ahead of most of Europe in their sliding towards Fascism (their version of it is led by millionaire/billionaire posh boys rather than nouveau riche construction magnates like in the US, but it's still the same kind of ideology)
As there's gradually enough distance that people can claim it wasn't their idea, more and more of will be willing to admit it was a really bad one.
Come back and lose all previous privileges.
Maybe we'd finally do a full metric switch instead of this bullshit 80% effort
And, that's still a good deal, actually.
It's a great deal. Go on the Euro, be a normal member and have the huge ~~death~~ dearth of benefits from the single market that the UK benefitted from for generations. It's a huge win for the UK if the EU would be that generous.
*huge deluge of benefits
I tried for dearth, but ended up with death. Deluge would have also been a great choice of words.
Breadth is what you were looking for. Dearth's root is dear, meaning precious and scarce. Breadth is width, so a great breadth contains a variety of things.
Dearth actually isn't the right word either, lol. That's a very small selection or lack of something.
I think we knew what you meant, though. Cheers.
You're right. Thank you for reminding me.
The graph gap between 0 and 30 irritates me. The 50 60 looks so high up.
I would have preferred 20 to 80 or 20 to 60 or 0 to 100.
I'm very happy when people start their graphs at 0. Starting at any other number is an easy way to "lie with statistics".
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