Europe to the world: ‘Canada is with us’ as it joins defence alliance in historic first

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[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago

UK told Europe to fuck off in 2016.

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 day ago

I'm from the UK. I remember when it happened. I think so many people underestimated how stupid and lost people felt and decided that this was a good action to use.

Childhood friend of mine said something like, my dad had his own house, granddad had his own house ... these immigrants come and live two families to a house ... I don't want that for my kid.

I was like, I get it ... but this doesn't solve the problem you're looking for ... he needed more Gary's Economics than Nigel Farage.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

ah...but 10 years later the millions who voted Brexit are somehow blaming politicians. It was a referendumb.

What was most hilarious was the top Google search the next day after the referendumb in UK was "what is brexit?"

[-] bampop@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

"lol, we did it! Lemme just check what we did"

[-] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

To be fair to those millions, the politicians involved in trying to get brexit through were going everywhere spreading propaganda on how good it would be (eg: 200 MILLION MORE MONEY FOR NHS), so yeah I think they have a lot of the blame.

I know they lie all the time, but still.. it made the vote (in peoples heads) "Give £200 million to NHS?", so they picked yes to leave, but pretty sure the NHS didnt see that money, because it was either a lie from the start or they needed it to make up for the grave losses from everywhere else because of the change idk.

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

okay, to be fair ... when the vote was coming up ... I didn't even know why we were voting about it. I looked up what remain and leave were about and I was like ... well I don't see advantage here to leave, so I voted to remain.

Then I came back to Canada to see my family. I told all my EU coworkers that this will never pass before I left. I then had to message them on Slack telling them I was so wrong ...

I remember telling my SF coworkers that they better get out to vote because we joked about Brexit and Trump is running and you don't want to make a similar mistake.