Not from the UK but... the damage is already done right?
I mean rejoining was always going to be inevitable, the only question is whether it's now or in 50 years, or incrementally over 50 years.
Point is, it will be on EUs terms.
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It was utter stupidity. The only nation in the history of the world to impose economic sanctions on its self. The nation was lied to so a select few very rich people could make their lives easier.
Do you know what the most googled term was after the referendum? "What is the EU?"
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I'm from the UK and from the North. Don't try and understand the stupidity of these people from these areas as economically developed as the worst parts of former soviet states now in the EU. These areas received a lot of EU development funding and still voted for Brexit AND the Tories (in 2019) that imposed austerity that made their post 2008 lives worse.
They are thick as mince and deserve the ridicule as much as the lying brexit politicians deserve jail time.
The only hope to not repeating the mistakes is the best quality education for as many people as possible. This hopefully enough of the smart ones from these areas are politically aware and active enough to offset the manipulation of the morons.
South west here, and it was the same here. We got so much EU funding for so many things - for a while we had the fastest broadband in the UK (yes, including London and the south east) because the EU paid for it, not to mention roads, farm subsidies, and a bunch of other "regional development fund" stuff - and now all that money is gone and the UK government haven't replaced it with anything. Brexit support here was like 60%, because too many people believed the lies.
I think ultimately what most people were really voting for in the referendum was an end to austerity and an end to top-down decisions made by faraway people who don't understand the real lives of people in these regions. The mistake they made (because of lying politicians) was that the problem was the EU, rather than our own government.
I think we should have just renegotiated stuff with the EU on the threat of leaving rather than playing our entire hand
I agree. There were definitely a few things with the EU that weren't working well. The one that stirred up a lot of emotion here was the matter of fishing, because there was a lot of very real tension between local fishermen and the fishing boats from France and Spain. But leaving the EU wasn't the right answer to these problems. Having an adult conversation to find a way of improving things was the right way.
I think conservatives voting against their own interests is a very well established trope. Certainly is in Australia.
Plenty of octogenarians who vote conservative while complaining their pension is too low and they can't afford rent.
Maybe the EU’s terms will be better for UK workers and the climate.
The damage wasn't a one time thing, it's ongoing. The longer we're out the more damage that will be done.
Diplomacy is all about concessions and what each country wants. The UK can sell security and an expansion to the EU market. The biggest thing the EU sells is standards.
The stuff that is coming into the UK atm is dogshit. This sums up exactly how things are going.
But it like she says in the video. The UK are frogs in the slow boil pot. We are going to have a bad incident before people wake up. The sad part is that having a bad incident like BSE etc has long term effects. The BSE crisis of the 90 in the UK took 15 years to reverse. Unfortunately a bad incident would be a large trigger point for removing the last of the Brexiteers.
The UK will certainly be on less favourable terms than they left if they rejoin. The pound will be a hot issue. This new system that Macron wants to create is an unknown quantity. We have to wait for a change of government before we find out what it entails. The EU have shown that they want to deal more with Starmer than they do with the Tories by mentioning it at a time Starmer was visiting. It also shows that the UK has something that the EU wants, or more specifically France and Germany wants.
I would go as far as to say we need a change of population. Which we'll have in about 20/30 years once all the fuckwits from my era (I was born in 1957) have died off. Muppets in the flats where I live and my sister in law etc. are still convinced there are hundreds of thousand of immigrants queing up to rape them and take their jobs, Keir Starmer is going to turn UK into a communist annex of Russia and so on. The fact that they're retired so dont have a job, and Russia hasn't been communist for decades is neither here nor there. The Daily Mail and the like tell them so. So it must be true.
Well I can say a member of my family voted for Johnson because he has nice hair. I literally spat out food on hearing that remark.
We need a better education system for the population. With the education system we have currently, the population will never be savvy to the cons that the politicians are using. Better education is the only way to stop ignorance. Politics and critical thinking should be part of our main school curriculum.
I would argue that we also need a PR voting system. Currently those politicians only need to con a few thousand people to control 65m. They gear their campaigns to small areas while ignoring the rest. Even changing the population and education system will never eradicate this.
The UK can sell security
Please elaborate, because the last “security” thing I saw out of the UK was their stupid bill attempting to back door encryption as well as having vendors sit on zero days so they (and hackers out there) could exploit them. None of that would be good for the EU, let alone the world.
The whole point of the EU is to stop Europe from continuously going to war with each other.
The UK has a very credible military base. Germany and France have tried in the past to combine the military forces of Europe. This is not to undermine the French who also have a credible force. Germany does not and could not argue it was in the same league. The UK military has been diminished under the Tory government, but the expertise is still around.
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As much as we love a good conspiracy centered around the BBC:
- Are they also ignoring pro Brexit rallies?
- What other outlets comparable to the BBC have covered the rally?
- Was it this rally or all pro remain rallies?
Ultimately the BBC needs to be free to make editorial decisions on its own and unless people have actual evidence of bias I'm going to say this is just Twitter conspiracy crap. But each to their own 😅.
The BBC has always fundementally been state controlled media. BBC world, which isn't readily available within the UK, has in the past done a good job of keeping up the pretence of being neutral for obvious reasons.
The current set of cunts in power have been really hamfisted and crass in their steering of the narrative. One recent example being Lineker showing the most basic level of humanity nearly getting him fired because it went against these cunts narrative. Lineker is not someone I'd count as a radical...
Many massive protests on workers rights, police brutality, climate change have got no coverage on the BBC. I think they've been pretty free in their editorial decisions, at this point it's just a dry version of gbeebies.
Thinking this is some twitter conspiracy crap is either disingenuous or you need to touch grass.
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You only have to mention Lineker to show the BBC bias or the many, many other instances. As for other media, it was covered under the left wing bias.
https://leftfootforward.org/2023/09/thousands-gather-in-london-for-national-rejoin-march/
Lineker the far left radical lol, definitely the most surreal one that came to mind for me as well!
Every single protest in the entire UK complains they weren't on the news (usually to try and get on the news).
If the BBC had to report on every protest, that's all the news would be, especially as people would game the system to get themselves on the news.
So, for the BBC to report on it, it has to be newsworthy: so more than 100,000 people and for it to be about something currently affective and effective. For example, if 20,000 people marched in solidarity with Palestine, is that truly newsworthy? There's protests about Palestine all the time — how would this one be new... ...s.
Typically it takes more than 3,000 people protesting to make BBC News. And I speak as someone who previously marched through central London to remain.
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