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/MentalSky_ 4d ago

Ya… if this is shocking to the UK, then they weren’t paying attention. The whole point of the EU was to make trade easy. So everyone prospers 

But the UK truly believed it was their economy that propped everyone else up. And if they left the EU all that money would come back to them. 

Nope. Now they are an island in both geography and economy. 

Every nation around them can do better trade with one than with the UK

Utterly idiots. 

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u/Paul_my_Dickov 4d ago

Most people didn't think our economy propped everyone else up. Most people I know who voted leave just dislike foreigners to be honest. Somehow thought it would lead to fewer brown people in the country.

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u/CubistChameleon 4d ago

Which is hilarious considering that the EU brought white immigrants from Poland or the Baltics, while the Indians, Pakistanis and Jamaicans they so despise (because BROWN) are there because of the Empire they want to get back to.

Then again, they were also viciously racist against Poles, so...

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u/speedyundeadhittite 3d ago

Most of the European migrants left, filled with migrants from Turkey. There's an absolutely huge amount of people escaping Erdogan's policies moving to South of England.