An alternative view is here: https://thenationalpulse.com/2026/06/23/farage-blasts-politi...
A yes, Farage as a source. And what does Trump think about it?
Scars mark Britain's economy 10 years after Brexit vote
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Re: Scars mark Britain's economy 10 years after Brexit vote
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you saying that 52% of British people are retired?
A majority of those working full-time or part-time voted to remain in the EU; most of those not working voted to leave. https://lordashcroftpolls.com/2016/06/how-the-united-kingdom...
If you look at various ways to slice the voters and look for over 50% leave voters you get arbitrarily many "people with X attribute" factors. Being in England, having lower education, being white, each age group over 45, being christian, etc etc. But it's misleading towards those groups as well, since it's usually just somewhat over 50% so it's misleading to characterise those groups of people through this.
Re: Scars mark Britain's economy 10 years after Brexit vote
#23Looking at Brexit is picking up the story halfway through. About 18 years ago now the Tories thought, incorrectly, that budgetary austerity was the prescription for responding to the global financial crisis. Eight years of indulging conspiracist nonsense later, their PM decided to hold the Brexit referendum as a means of jangling some keys in front of their voting base and then, perhaps even more dumbly, the party de…
>About 18 years ago now the Tories thought, incorrectly, that budgetary austerity was the prescription for responding to the global financial crisis. What I don't get about the Tories is their obsession with Thatcherism despite all the evidence suggesting it's not popular.
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Re: Scars mark Britain's economy 10 years after Brexit vote
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you saying that 52% of British people are retired?
No, but the only two people that I personally know who voted for Brexit, my partner’s parents, were both retired. They did it as a protest because they never thought that it would pass. They immediately regretted it once my partner explained how it would fuck up her/our future. They have subsequently both died.
Anecdotical evidence is not just useless, it's deceiving. I only know one person who voted for Brexit, and it's a low-40s Scottish lawyer who lives in South West London (the posh part). And he's still alive. It doesn't mean anything.