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‘It all disappeared with Brexit’: Craft beer boom ends as more than 100 UK firms go bust
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
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And those of us that weren't duped (and did actually vote) are stuck along for the ride, all the while knowing how preventable this whole mess was.
For starters, some of the people voting to leave didn't even know what the EU was, some voted simply because they wanted to spite David Cameron, and some thought it'd get rid of the "foreigners". All absolutely dumbfuck reasons to fuck over the country by voting leave.
Furthermore, a bunch of the remainers didn't even vote because they assumed we'd win, which is also a massively dumbfuck reason not to vote, as by doing so they effectively voted to leave instead.
To be slightly fair to them though, I'd too have a hard time imagining that there'd be so many people willing to vote so completely against their own interests based off almost solely off the words of two slimy rich bastards and a bus.
Should watch us here in the US. We always vote against our interests and it always turns to shite.
Not voting or voting without knowing what's being voted for are yet another thing we're #1 at.
What I found astonishing is that it only required a 50%+1 vote majority for something that important.
It only required that because it was a "non-binding, advisory" referendum.
I mean it was fairly obvious leading up to the vote that it wasn't just going to be taken as advisory, but there technically should have been another vote before Brexit formally happened.
Of course that wouldn't happen though, because the conservatives that wanted Brexit to happen knew they got lucky first time round, and would lose their lightning in a bottle of they'd put it out there a second time.
It doesn't. It was a non binding vote. A binding vote required 2/3rds.