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Comment by p_j_w

9 days ago

>People would vote the same way now, most likely. The opinion hasn't shifted around much…

I don't know where you're getting this information, but it's in stark contrast to all of the statistics I've ever seen on the matter.

https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/51484-how-do-britons-...

Even Nigel Farage has called it a disaster.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-leave-...

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graublau  9 days ago

Nigel Farage's entire career was built on Euroskepticism and you claim in 2025 he would vote REMAIN — what are you talking about??

  • ben_w  9 days ago

    The original opinion poll in the other comment seemed quite clear: https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/51484-how-do-britons-...

    Here's some Farage quotes, so you can see that there is no contradiction between the comment you were replying to (him saying it was a disaster is compatible with all this) and him still being a leaver:

      “I don’t think that for a moment,” Mr Farage replied when he was asked if the UK would have been better off staying in the EU, the world’s largest single market area. “But what I do think is we haven’t actually benefitted from Brexit economically, what we could have done.”

  “I mean, what Brexit’s proved, I’m afraid, is that our politicians are about as useless as the commissioners in Brussels were,” he added. “We’ve mismanaged this totally, and if you look at simple things…such as takeovers, such as corporation tax, we are driving business away from our country.

  “Arguably, now we’re back in control, we’re regulating our own businesses even more than they were as EU members. Brexit has failed.”

    - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-...

    • bjoli  9 days ago

      Why do people vote for populists that inevitably will just do the bidding of the rich and powerful? That man is such a disgustingly clear example.

      The same thing is true in Sweden. People vote for the party that blames the immigrants and then goes on to rule with the liberal conservative part. They all know that during the time they claim is the downfall of Sweden, we have more than one third of state tax income and had the worst privatisation of schools worldwide, . Yet the problems with schools and healthcare is immigration.

      Demagogues are what they are.

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