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Are you admitting that even you don’t know? Why did anybody vote for Brexit should be the question?
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My guess is that they voted to leave the European Union. In case you missed it, we have.
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Some voted leave because they thought it meant “leave things as they are”.
Honestly!
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What was the number one issue the public wanted sorting?
Have the government implemented this wish?
Have the public been let down by an incompetent government?Quite simple really, they were lied to, promoters of the leave campaign appealed to the voters baser instincts.
One bit of nonsense was the control of an unelected body, the European Commission, on our lives. We have a ready replacement, it’s called Whitehall, also an unelected body.
Even the most strident brexiteer did not consider leaving the Single Market, that would be catastrophic they said, yet that’s what happened, promoted by a small cabal.
It’s a mess, it’ll take 50 years to recover.
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In 1993, the EU’s share of GDP on a worldwide scale was 30%.
Last I saw – it is now below 15%. Work that one out for yourself. You should see the graph!
As a former EU researcher – I cannot start to explain: the incompetence, the corruption and the waste found in this toxic body. (Westminster truly pales into insignificance by comparison – hard to accept but true.)
I had actually voted to stay in. Let me repeat. Like many, I supported the concept. When I was invited to to examine it closely, however – I was shocked to the core. My volte face was indeed based on prejudice – I despise waste, I abhor duplicity, ineptitude, expense and am none too keen on imperialism.Sorry. I haven’t been on this site in years – it is highly improbable that I shall ever come on again.
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Hah, why did the UK leave the EU? They were afraid because they were told the country was run by Brussels, when really the country was run by the Tories. Amid a deep, badly managed recession, a lie was put about – that leaving the EU would get rid of foreigners/brown/black people, provide more money for hospitals, and somehow turn back the clock to the good old days of yore.
But, think for a moment. EU membership had never been seriously questioned before, except by a fringe group of political eccentrics, because everyone could see the benefits far outweighed the deficiencies. Corruption, waste, democracy? There’s lots of corruption, waste and a democratic deficit in the British parliament. But the Brexiters ignored all that, and suddenly made the EU a scapegoat for all the UK’s ills. It wasn’t just a political issue, it was moral one, the campaigners told us from the barricades, and something just had to be done.
The leave campaign was dominated by racism. It was given a seal of approval by so-called ‘respectable’ members of the community; men in power, men in suits, even men of the cloth. On Bru, there was Lesgeo, broadcasting about his experience in the school, court and even the church, building up moral credibility before putting about some of the most egregious and un-Christian lies ever seen on here, and even encouraging others to share them.
Those stories? Haha! Remember that one about frightening the public with “research” predicting that 12 million Turks were likely to come? Remember too, the connection with those loony, far-right, so-called Christian web sites in the US? Populist, weapons-grade lies and nonsense to terrorise the gullible, from someone clearly unsuitable for public office. Neither must we forget pugilist jonnie ‘Or-not’ who used Bru to threaten to punch Andy Burnham’s lights out… clearly a democratic deficit there!
Elsewhere in the country it got worse. The Tories had their ‘climate of hostility’ policies, the Kippers had their ‘breaking point’ posters, and together with the right-wing media they conjured an ugly national mood, one in which people were looking sideways at anyone who looked or spoke ‘foreign’ – in supermarkets, buses, pubs, clubs – while in homes around the country arguments were breaking out among families, friends, neighbours… arguments between those who could see through the bullshit, and those who just wanted to believe.
Nobody was immune, and through manipulation in politics, mass and social media, Facebook, Twitter, plus the use of algorithms to target those who don’t seek out reliable news, the country was pushed into a position of calamitous and epic stupidity, like arguing about the existence of gravity.
It was complete and utter madness. Every living PM, along with prize-winning scientists, people who understood things – experts – all said ‘remain’, and have since been proved correct. Yet, amid the emotion of cheap shoes, fish and blue passports, the believers still followed Leadsom and Farage into the abyss, winning by the narrowest of margins. But just what exactly did they win? Precisely nothing.
Lies have consequences, and now we are reaping what others have sown. The country is sicker, weaker, poorer, and there’s unfinished business. No wonder the Brexiters and their towering hubris want to move on and let it drop.
As for Lesgeo’s belated U-Turn above, dad and the jonnies should come on here to apologise for all the guff they posted in the past about an ‘evil empire’ etc; guff which misled, stirred up hatred, and contributed to the creation of a climate in which it was ok to hate Muslims and immigrants, as well as OK to leave the EU without any sort of plan whatsoever.
But, in the Christian spirit which has long since characterised many of our band of Bru-ers, let there be compassion for the conned, and utter contempt for the conmen. Let us pray for them all – you know who you are.
Why did anybody vote for Brexit should be the question?
God made them do it.
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Seems you have nothing other than your usual blind faith.
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Best thing about Blind Faith was Steve Winwoods contributions, Clapton and Bakers roles were overstated IMO and poor old Ric Grech never recovered properly from the split and died eight years later of liver failure due to alcoholism, only 43.
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What was the number one issue the public wanted sorting?
I didn’t vote for Brexit, but I assume it was to leave the EU at any cost.
Have the government implemented this wish?
Considering Brexit has gone pretty much how I expected, I think they have implemented it better than they have implemented other things
Have the public been let down by an incompetent government?
Yes
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Ric Grech did good work with Family before Blind Faith and with Traffic after. But as you say, he was another who died very young.
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