• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Farage is responsible? I heard it was a national referendum and the vast majority of votes were for Brexit. British are as bad as “I have no idea who voted Trump” Americans.

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      the vast majority of votes were for Brexit

      It was 52% to 48 on low turnout. Real fucking landslide. And much of the funding came from Arron Banks, who went to Russia as a young man and came back with a fortune, the origin of which he has never convincingly explained.

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        And who’s fault is the low turnout?

        You guys always whinge and then vote stupid, then blame the politicians.

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      vast majority of votes

      Pfffttt… 51.8% and as if it wasnt a bunch of old assholes who saw a bus and didnt think it would impact their holiday to complain about not being able to retire to Spain immediately after.

      We don’t all have to talk like we know everything all the time.

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
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      Where would the blame lie? The idiots who believed the lies or the cunt with the megaphone spreading them?

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      Shows what you know.

      Seriously you might want to look it up because majority does not mean 51% of those who bother to turn out. Which was mostly no one because it was seen as a political performance piece and not a real idea.

      Then the idiot government screwed it up further by running headlong into a brick wall with zero plan. It was always going to be bad but they could have managed the split better.

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      British are as bad as “I have no idea who voted Trump” Americans.

      Hard truths. New Labour only ever knows how to run to the right of the opposition and the old Conservatives can’t campaign their way out of a paper bag. So it’s Reform UK in the next election, strictly due to liberal incompetence.