Of the numerous people I know voted for Brexit
only one did it out of just not believing the EU was any good at anything, the rest were racists.
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Brandy_Bumwinkle, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 17:37,
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I do know a couple of people who voted for reason that were not racism, only fair to list them
One voted leave to 'stick it to the tories'. I did try to explain that it was the tories who were most in favour of it, but they just couldn't understand that.
Another thought that leaving would 'usher in a left wing revolution under Jeremy Corbyn'. I did try to explain that they were just playing into the hands of some of the most tory tories in the party who would use Brexit to gain personal wealth at the expense of the country, but they couldn't understand that.
My favourite was 'Jupiter is trine with Pluto' which to be honest made as much sense as any other reason I heard. I was not able to counter that reason because it was so totally bonkers.
All of the rest were racists though who just wanted less brown people on the streets and 'less of them over here' even though Brexit would not change that in the slightest.
My favourites were living out in Spain who wanted to keep britain for the british and were unable to see the irony.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 18:06,
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Oh god, those Brexit voting 'ex-pats'...
Every time I think of them my heart sinks a little, but then its buoyancy is stabilised by the schadenfreude.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 18:55,
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I remember one in particular
she was about 65, leathery, and a 'singer'.
She was still under the impression that a 65 year old woman singing the songs she used to sing in the early 80's would still 'bring them in like nobodies business and these young Spanish bar owners don't know what they are doing' and that 'things were so much better when the English used to run the bars'.
She was very vocal about how dirty she thought all the Spanish were and how they 'just pump raw sewage straight into the sea'.
I feel certain Spain for one is glad we left the EU.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 21:39,
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I don't know why I thought of Toyah just then.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 23:09,
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It's the leather boobs
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Mon 19 Apr 2021, 23:35,
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I never saw one pro-brexit person change their mind before the vote in any online dis
Partly because of defensiveness from remainder attacks entrenching their view, but I thought the "project fear" counterargument was brilliantly and horrifyingly effective, and since copied by other right wing campaigns in one form or another. It was essentially a religious "don't listen to them, whatever they say that's the devil talking" like dogma of faith
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 20 Apr 2021, 0:23,
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