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[–] [email protected] 80 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Just look at the propaganda the right was pushing out at the time.

https://reaction.life/britain-looks-like-brexit/

It's complete fantasy and almost nothing it predicted came to pass.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What on earth kind of fever dream did I just read? This looks like it was written with the power of hindsight to be able to present the exact inverse of everything that happened, yet somehow wasn't.

Seriously, this reads like a time traveler trolling us on the long con.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

I think it was some kind of sexual thing?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

It really is a bizarre document. I could understand a wishlist or even a future tense fantasy, but the way they wrote it in past tense from a future vantage is just bonkers. It's so weird.

But looking at the dates it was published a couple days before the actual Brexit vote, which they expected to lose, so I think this was meant as a tantalizing fantasy to use to chide people once the vote failed. But then it didn't.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

What the shit? That article is utter, utter tripe. They're not even celebrating an 'independence day', which out of the things described in that garbage writeup would have been one of the easiest things to accomplish.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Fucking hell. They really were/are/will be demented.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

The last thing most EU leaders wanted, once the shock had worn off, was a protracted argument with the United Kingdom which, on the day it left, became their single biggest market. Terms were agreed easily enough.

Lmao

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It was also absurd at the time. The way he talks about REACH is insane. He thinks the chemical industry in the EU wasnt powerful enough to lobby against unessescary legislation?

REACH is the minimum we agreed on to not have everyone and their dog be exposed to harmful chemicals and work towards using somewhat less harmful chemicals.

What he was demanding there is deregulating in the style of putting lead back into gasoline.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

it usually is. And ask about it, they'll say lead's fine. They've never even heard that it's poisonous, they'll look at you like you're a four-eyed frog when you tell them, and then they'll ask for a citation. And you're not even allowed to just stab them at that point, even as a mercy killing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

To be fair, this is about June 2025, so they still have some 15 months to accomplish it all. /s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Ahh thanks that was a laugh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

man, what a jackoff piece that is. Dude must have an economics degree or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Holy shit that was hilarious to read. But sad that people took that propaganda seriously