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‘I’m ashamed to be a Brexit voter – it never occurred to me that my holidays would be affected’ (inews.co.uk)

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unawareness is the hallmark of the Leopards Eating Faces Party. ;)

As an Oregonian, I only watched Brexit from a great distance, but the one that shocked me the most was:

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/06/24/480949383/britains-google-searches-for-what-is-the-eu-spike-after-brexit-vote

[–] C4d@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I saw that too, along with interviews from various people who clearly has no idea what they were talking about.

Hardly anyone I know who voted for Brexit was able to name our MEPs or to highlight a specific area of legislation that they felt could be improved / should be changed.

As a nation we have a proud tradition of general ignorance, blaming anything and everything remotely unpopular on the EU while utterly failing to engage and understand it.