I wince every time I hear a younger person refer to it as "the late 1900s" - eviltoast
  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Lol, more to do with the EU/Syrian refugee migration crisis going on around the time. Anti-EU sentiment was very high at the time, all across the union, the UK was just the only country to put it to a vote.