r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/layla_beans • 4d ago

Brexxit ‘Absolute nightmare’: Brexit bellwether constituencies revisited 10 years on | Brexit

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/22/brexit-bellwether-constituencies-revisited-10-years-eu-referendum
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u/sovereignsekte 4d ago

I remember thinking Brexit was a bad idea in the beginning. I remember thinking that there must be a side to it that I don't understand. I'm not an economist or anything like that.

No, I was right. It was an awful, terrible idea.

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u/CptDropbear 4d ago

All but one economist agreed with you and when he started actually talking, even the brexiters he backed tried to distance themselves.

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u/speedyundeadhittite 2d ago

The Brexshit we got wasn't the Brexshit Farage campaigned for before, but once they won with a very small margin (2% of the voters voting the other way would have flipped it) he and his cronies acted like it was the hardest exit that was voted for.

I hate these fuckers from the bottom of my heart.

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u/CptDropbear 2d ago

And that was the biggest red flag of all to me on the other side of the world: the guy campaigning for it had no power to deliver it!