Europe to the world: ‘Canada is with us’ as it joins defence alliance in historic first

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    ah…but 10 years later the millions who voted Brexit are somehow blaming politicians. It was a referendumb.

    What was most hilarious was the top Google search the next day after the referendumb in UK was “what is brexit?”

    • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works
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      4 hours ago

      To be fair to those millions, the politicians involved in trying to get brexit through were going everywhere spreading propaganda on how good it would be (eg: 200 MILLION MORE MONEY FOR NHS), so yeah I think they have a lot of the blame.

      I know they lie all the time, but still… it made the vote (in peoples heads) “Give £200 million to NHS?”, so they picked yes to leave, but pretty sure the NHS didnt see that money, because it was either a lie from the start or they needed it to make up for the grave losses from everywhere else because of the change idk.

    • lobut@lemmy.ca
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      7 hours ago

      okay, to be fair … when the vote was coming up … I didn’t even know why we were voting about it. I looked up what remain and leave were about and I was like … well I don’t see advantage here to leave, so I voted to remain.

      Then I came back to Canada to see my family. I told all my EU coworkers that this will never pass before I left. I then had to message them on Slack telling them I was so wrong …

      I remember telling my SF coworkers that they better get out to vote because we joked about Brexit and Trump is running and you don’t want to make a similar mistake.