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Europe to the world: ‘Canada is with us’ as it joins defence alliance in historic first (www.yacnews.com)
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Europe to the world: ‘Canada is with us’ as it joins defence alliance in historic first

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[–] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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?"

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months 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.

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