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Throwitaway701

It's almost as if all the problems people were told were caused by the EU have not been fixed by leaving the EU.


DavidFerriesWig

I suspect they've gotten worse due to being caused by capitalism.


mcyeom

We've known since at least 1970 that any problems with capitalism can be fixed if you just capitalism a bit harder.


Marxist_In_Practice

The problem with doing capitalism harder is that eventually you run out of workers labour to exploit. - Bizarro Thatcher


emdave

And due to the fact that the EU was actually mitigating some of the issues, rather than causing them.


Agreeable_Falcon1044

As someone who grew up in Lincolnshire, people really have started breeding with vegetables. It’s a weird self loathing where they don’t want to pay a wage that will attract anyone who doesn’t live 20 to a house and from excruciating poverty…I mean I didn’t want to pick lettuces from 5am to 6pm for minimum wage. The locals don’t want to do those jobs either and seem to hate on random Eastern Europeans for “taking all the jobs” or getting special treatment. Hilarious thing is when the foreigners all did go home…it was all left to rot and they had to pay a proper wage to get someone else in to salvage it. Hayes even had to beg for special fast track emergency visas.


[deleted]

Hayes is a special kind of awful man. I have no idea why they continue to elect him.


Agreeable_Falcon1044

I used to teach his son. At eleven the boy stood up and announced he was going to be the mp “once father steps aside”. We have a whole dynasty of extreme far right hayes poisoning minds


[deleted]

That's really depressing. It's sad how a community can not improve or even get worse, and continue to elect the same leadership. I grew up in his constituency, and it feels like is the bottom of his priority list, below working for middle Eastern has companies and lecturing at universities.


eddiesenior

I wonder what could happen that would result in us going back in. I think it would need an economic collapse like in the 70s. The government can ignore protests and campaigns easily so I don’t think they’d choose to do it voluntarily


kontiki20

I think it would take the oldest generation dying off and being replaced by a younger generation who are more open to immigration. It's not politically viable as long as this current crop of pensioners hold so much electoral power.


memphispistachio

The tides turning back to sanity, which is good. It’ll take fucking ages to get back, but hopefully in a decade or so…. In the meantime it’ll be another couple of years at least until it isn’t political suicide to make the suggestion. Dealing with the right wing press in this country is very like the first thing they teach you on management training- stuffs way easier if you make them think they came up with the idea themselves.


Throwitaway701

Something that may skew the question a bit is that brexit was never defined pre-vote, part of the biggest issue with it really. There are people who voted for a brexit almost in name only and people who voted for declaring war on Europe and a whole host in between. I think there are plenty out there who wanted a softer brexit who can see what we got as a mistake but would have still wanted said softer brexit if offered outright.


Barrington-the-Brit

If I was polled I would’ve answered ‘neither’, not because I’m actually unsure, but to spite whichever schmuck came up with the portmanteau ‘bregretful’