Comment on Brexit’s Lasting Damage Is Looking Inescapable

just_ducky_in_NH@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• Oneeightnine@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  38% of Scotland voted to Leave. 44% of Northern Ireland voted to Leave. 52% of Wales voted to Leave.

  The idea that this is merely a mess of England’s making is a little unfair, because there’s plenty of blame to go around; Why did 44% of people in Northern Ireland think leaving the EU would be a good idea?

  They pushed a question on people that they had no real ability to answer, and then forced us to answer that question with what was essentially a Yes/No answer.

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  • TheOctonaut@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Why did 44% of people in Northern Ireland think leaving the EU would be a good idea?

    I mean that one’s easy, they wanted to break the Good Friday Agreement and put up a border in Ireland. Didn’t work out for them but they managed to break it anyway by going into government with the Tories.

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• MonsterMonster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Don’t forget that London on the whole voted to remain.

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  • peg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Agreed. I’m sick of Londoners being dragged down by all these feckless provincials.

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    • Subverb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I’m sick of being lumped in with people that elected Trump because I live in the United States. But that’s how it is, we’re part of a collective.

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    • Phoenix3875@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Time for London’t.

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  • yeah@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Yep. 60%. Only 5 out of 33 boroughs voted leave and they are peripheral.

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• Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  And Wales don’t let them off the hook

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