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While I do loves me a ~~good~~ great meme reference, please remember that a lot of people voted against it - there are a bunch of innocents that got wrapped up along with all of this, as well as the perpetrators and the collaborators too ofc.
Genuinely felt some betrayal and paranoia after I voted against it and it went through.
Similar to here when our own conservative-party, orange-haired wacko-clown won... at least you can hold your own head high, having fought against it:-).
I remember waking up after the referendum and being really sad, the UK was an ally to us Danes on most EU-issues, and it felt a little bit like a breakup. I still haven't really forgiven you lot, to be honest, which is silly but true.
I think most Europeans felt that, because after all the uk was a founding member and an integral and valued part of the union with an unprecedented amount of preferential treatment. When they left it was a bit like your partner leaves to fuck some homewrecker for a couple months before they realize how good they had it, but it’s ruined now.
The UK wasn't a founding member, unless you start counting from the Maastricht treaty, and that was really just a continuation of the others going back to about 1948.
And then it got worse as the goal posts kept changing as to what "Brexit" meant. To the point where a no deal went from being something remain were lampooned for saying could happen to being apparently what people wanted.
Brexit meant brexit. And something about ready meals.
True but it’s also firmly out of our European hands now. The uk left, and we only let them back in when they have learned some humility and are willing to rejoin on standard conditions. That is not happening yet.
Definitely - they had it all, but got greedy and pushed for even more, and since they made it adversarial you gotta protect yourself. It's like you are building this wonderful thing, but if they want to strike out on their own that is up to them. Nobody was forcing their hand there.
That’s all true, I was being a bit smug about it. It’s a great tragedy that has already negatively affected many lives on both sides of the channel.
That said, the temptation to turn the words of obnoxious Top Gear guy against brexiteers was just too large to resist.