Many Brits thought this before the election. It was pretty much the exact same scenario as Trump winning, it was such a silly idea that no one could even believe it would happen. Unfortunately you just get a biased view of the situation from getting all the info and conversation from online
The problem is just over 50% of our population seemed to be wearing rose-tinted goggles of back when we controlled over half the world’s trade…
They failed to realise the reality that we relied on the EU as much as it relied on us, and cutting ourselves off from our primary trade partners was a plainly stupid thing to do.
There was also the racists who saw it as a way to get rid of the “foreigners”, not realising many of these immigrants weren’t from the schengen zone, therefore wouldn’t be “sent back”, but that’s a different story.
Don’t disagree with your point but it was only a 51.9/48.1 split of votes cast.
In raw numbers only 72.2% of eligible voters actually voted and so the split against the total pool was:
37.5% of voters for Brexit
-34.8% of voters against Brexit
-27.8% of voters did not vote
It is what it is and we are where we are but I feel two points quite strings about these figures:
-Little over a third of the population upset the established norm to our collective detriment on empty promises and questionable rhetoric.
Just under a third of our population didn’t even turn up and threw away there say in something that was going to be permanent and far reaching to their lives.
It just rubs me up the wrong way how so few can affect so many on such aobg term basis. This isn’t on the scale of having you choice loose at an election as those are time limited. This was permanent and way more intrusive.
Yeah. It is ridiculous that there was one and only one vote to decide something that will affect our lives for quite literally generations, and then 1/3 of the eligible population just decided not to show up to vote on it
Many Brits thought this before the election. It was pretty much the exact same scenario as Trump winning, it was such a silly idea that no one could even believe it would happen. Unfortunately you just get a biased view of the situation from getting all the info and conversation from online
Well, if it only had been “most” before the election, the UK would not have those issues. It might have different ones, but not those.
The problem is just over 50% of our population seemed to be wearing rose-tinted goggles of back when we controlled over half the world’s trade…
They failed to realise the reality that we relied on the EU as much as it relied on us, and cutting ourselves off from our primary trade partners was a plainly stupid thing to do.
There was also the racists who saw it as a way to get rid of the “foreigners”, not realising many of these immigrants weren’t from the schengen zone, therefore wouldn’t be “sent back”, but that’s a different story.
Don’t disagree with your point but it was only a 51.9/48.1 split of votes cast.
In raw numbers only 72.2% of eligible voters actually voted and so the split against the total pool was:
It is what it is and we are where we are but I feel two points quite strings about these figures:
-Little over a third of the population upset the established norm to our collective detriment on empty promises and questionable rhetoric.
It just rubs me up the wrong way how so few can affect so many on such aobg term basis. This isn’t on the scale of having you choice loose at an election as those are time limited. This was permanent and way more intrusive.
Yeah. It is ridiculous that there was one and only one vote to decide something that will affect our lives for quite literally generations, and then 1/3 of the eligible population just decided not to show up to vote on it