Brexit mega thread part 8: platinum jubilee edition

[ChiswickFlo]

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Copied from another thread:

"Brexit is like one of those shit Christmas Wonderlands where you're promised a magical experience with Santa and Reindeer and find yourself in a car park with a smelly guy in a Santa suit and some dogs with horn headbands. There's bound to be anger when we were promised it would solve all our problems then it turns out to be a crock of shit.

On top of all of that - the government is very alarming, they have shown themselves not to be committed to the rule of law, let alone ethics or even common sense. They'll do anything to stay in power."

Yep!

And Sturgeon has announced a date for another referendum...at the same time Johnson is picking a fight with the EU.

You can't make it up.

I feel sick thinking about it all.

Plus Putin etc.

I just feel like saying sorry to my kids. When I brought them I to this world I felt like things were ok. I didn't expect so many storms.

My oldest says he won't have children. Due to climate change he doesn't want to bring anyone into a broken world.

My oldest says he won't have children. Due to climate change he doesn't want to bring anyone into a broken world.

Like lions and humans once a government has tasted authority, it will keep on seeking it out. Don't think you can opt out of it. If no one on this thread can see a possible future of enforced births and reduced contraception, then it is too late.

Neither of my kids wants children. In the light of what is happening now I am so glad they are both gay - no accidental pregnancies possible there.

Ds2 is gay 🙂
Ds1 says he's leaving UK asap
Can't say I blame him 🤷

My two are also planning to leave the UK, as am I once they are settled. This country is a shitshow.

Wish I could :(

Another 70s revival: the brain drain. Those with skills and/or money will just move to better, and we'll be left (again) with the dregs that Johnson and his coven rose from.

news.sky.com/story/pound-heads-for-biggest-six-month-drop-since-2016-12642654

Wow, just wow.

Apparently 16% of the voters think Brexit is going well. In other news….

www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/30/uk-government-scrap-european-law-protecting-special-habitats

So many boxes getting ticked off on the Project Reality list. And yes, that includes brain drain. The world's best and brightest won't want to come here, and the UK's best and brightest will find places elsewhere.

Latest YouGov poll

Who thinks Brexit has been going well since the end of the transition period?

Con voters: 33%
Leave voters: 31%
British public: 16%
Remain voters: 6%
Lab voters: 3%

twitter.com/YouGov/status/1541792584787427329?t=LG1KosKg3zAWpCWGZC27hw&s=19

>Wow, just wow.
If we don't get to participate in horizon it means the UK won't be involved in the world's leading science projects. Any budding/ambitious scientist would be crazy to stay outside horizon - so they'll move.

ie in science at least, we'll be left with the second/third tier. Dregs may be unfair but a pretty sorry state nontheless.

'Brain drain' will help reduce the UK population, brexit benefit......

Is that one of these magic incantations Brexiteers use to make the truth go away ?

Like "will of the people" or "taking back control" or "sovereignty innit ?"

no SerendipityJane it an expression of surprise that you consider your fellow Britons "dregs" That's up there with Hillary Clinton's "deplorables".

'dregs' is putting it strongly, but the nature of the world is that the most talented will go where their work is likely to be most accessible, most appreciated and best paid. That is not likely to be the UK any more. The people who stay will be those for whom those options abroad are not available - they may be very good, but they will not be the best. That's reality.

Unfortunately, it probably won't have a significant effect. The brightest aren't the ones who tend to procreate indiscriminately. CF our illustrious Crime Minister...

And I'm rather wondering about those 6% of remain voters who think Brexshit is actually going well...

And in "it's all going swimmingly" news;

The UK’s trade performance fell to its worst level since records began in the first quarter of 2022

Oh FFS what is it with you Brexiteers ? Talk about touchy - you are so easily offended. It's embarrassing.

You have a statiscally average spread of qualities in a population. You remove some based on being above-average in an arbitrary quality. What is left is by definition of lower overall quality, or "dregs" by that measure. It's not a nice word, agreed. But then what Brexit and it's knuckle dragging supports have done to the UK isn't nice either and don't ever think you'll get an easy ride for it.

I guess this must be related to the times when someone says "I'm not a racist but .." before literally defining a racist behaviour.

Anything less than 5% is pretty much noise when it comes to any insights into population behaviour. Certainly I would expect 5% of any non-trivial sample size to completely fail to understand the question.

You also need to factor in contrarians who always vote "the wrong way" for the lolz.

A few will get stuck here. As we will need to look after aging parents etc. And the social care system is crap.