A place to debate and discuss the UK's exit from the European Union. Be Kind and Courteous.
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From an outsider’s perspective, it looked like insanity had taken over your country since the downsides of Brexit were so obvious.
Just like how "President Trump" looked to the rest of the world.
Yes, Trump and his following is our version of that.
Brexit ripped me and my LDR English partner apart and it‘s been a struggle to try and navigate ever since. We had planned for me to go there due to my English being better than his German, but Brexit was what changed our course. So they lose two people with skills in IT and welding! Hope that helps with inflation, eh?
The only upside of this is that once we are done with this horrendous immigration process (fuck Austria too for that), he will be away from England/UK for good, which I see only as going downhill, as they don‘t invest in infrastructure or healthcare, but instead in surveillance and protest suppression.
My right winger family members here are cheering this on too and are already hoping Austria will leave the EU as well, in which case we plan to move to Germany. I‘m not dealing with the fallout from nationalist stupidity again.
It's mostly just old farts that voted in favor. Most of them aren't around anymore or won't be in the next 5 years. Such a shitty way of doing it imo
Important decisions like that should always be some sort of majority vote, the way all of it came about is just odd
Technically it was a majority vote. It's just the arrogance of the people that set up and agreed to the referendum that thought nobody would vote for it meant that they didn't define what the majority should be. >50%, 60%, 75% etc. It was a massive failure of state craft made easier because the case to remain hinged on a "if you're not with us you're a racist" argument that didn't go down well to win people over.
Whenever I hear inflation I instantly think "how much do you want to bet a bunch of greedy landlords and whatnot jacked up their prices without any of their costs going up even remotely as much, while blaming it on inflation?" and I feel like it's literally every landlord, capitalist who's money makes them money and they have an overinflated sense of importance and societal value
And banks on mortgages, and supermarkets on food, and oil companies on fuel, and energy companies on utilities……
I'm not from the UK, but I found it really sad that my dads company decided to switch a lot of their British suppliers with German and French ones due to the increased bureaucracy of dealing with the UK.
for a period of time
Quite the optimist here, dude.
100 years also technically a period of time
True, true.