• Schal330@lemmy.world
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    But that wasn’t enough, so they threw a tantrum and left.

    I don’t think it was necessarily just greed and racism that caused Brexit. There were a lot of people that weren’t happy with life in the UK, and a huge misinformation campaign cropped up at the wrong time to suggest Brexit would leave people better off and provide more money for the NHS.

    I think what didn’t help is when there were celebs who weren’t struggling like everyone else were saying people would be stupid not to vote stay.

    The misinformation campaign worked and a lot of those people that voted leave realised how they had been misled.

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      All of those millions for the NHS that was just a lie and we all only got told it was a lie afterwards. And we basically had people on the leave side admitting to just making numbers up.

      • Linda R@nord.pub
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        It was a very obvious lie. Your people believed that lie, and your people will believe similar lies again in the future, unless they change.

        And just a few comments above, there was yet another Briton saying “the EU just wants to punish the UK for Brexit”, showcasing that no, that people has not changed a bit. They are still swimming very deep in the waters of exceptionalism, seeing being treated as just a normal country instead something better than others as “a punishment”!

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          No of course not, they just keep letting them get away with it because they are all getting paid by the same people arent they, its all just a game to them im sure