Brexit’s Lasting Damage Is Looking Inescapable - eviltoast
    • SbisasCostlyTurnover@feddit.uk
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      8 months ago

      38% of Scotland voted to Leave. 44% of Northern Ireland voted to Leave. 52% of Wales voted to Leave.

      The idea that this is merely a mess of England’s making is a little unfair, because there’s plenty of blame to go around; Why did 44% of people in Northern Ireland think leaving the EU would be a good idea?

      They pushed a question on people that they had no real ability to answer, and then forced us to answer that question with what was essentially a Yes/No answer.

      • The Octonaut@mander.xyz
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        8 months ago

        Why did 44% of people in Northern Ireland think leaving the EU would be a good idea?

        I mean that one’s easy, they wanted to break the Good Friday Agreement and put up a border in Ireland. Didn’t work out for them but they managed to break it anyway by going into government with the Tories.

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        8 months ago

        Agreed. I’m sick of Londoners being dragged down by all these feckless provincials.

      • yeah@feddit.uk
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        8 months ago

        Yep. 60%. Only 5 out of 33 boroughs voted leave and they are peripheral.