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Starry Wisdom
Don't suppose you were on their list
A thank you to Brexiteers.
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Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
I don’t think it’s a very complex point to understand: why do you think the group you are ‘taking the piss out of’ voted the way they did?
5% of a low hourly wage? Likely on a zero hours contract?But who will serve us our coffee at Pret?
Pret A Manger shop staff get pay rise, as sector competes for workers
Sandwich chain Pret A Manger, which saw customer levels plunge during the pandemic, has said central London trade is improving and shop staff will get a 5% pay rise.www.standard.co.uk
Pret are cunts founded by Nazi sympathisers so fuck them
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Explains why they only use white bread
bimble
floofy
This way of looking at stuff, do you feel the same compassion and respect is owing to Tory voters who may not actually benefit from electing more tories? If not why not.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
The ex-pats have always occupied a particular place in the continuity remain firmament. They are held to be:
Yet this Overseas voters’ decisive Brexit-fuelled shift from Conservatives casts doubt on government Votes For Life pledge
indicates that ex-pats overwhelmingly votes remain. And Labour (or sadly liberal) at the election. Any remainer fancy explaining the irrational rage?
- too old
- the wrong colour
- the wrong class
- too slow to comply with remainer expectations about how the British must behave abroad vis the dominant culture
- inherently racist/conservative
- an easy target for thwarted/anguished rage from those pompous enough to believe their way of life is the only one acceptable in polite society
Yet this Overseas voters’ decisive Brexit-fuelled shift from Conservatives casts doubt on government Votes For Life pledge
indicates that ex-pats overwhelmingly votes remain. And Labour (or sadly liberal) at the election. Any remainer fancy explaining the irrational rage?
Supine
Newt Member
err, you brought them up not me. I have no idea why they voted and not particularly interested. Feel free to share your wealth of knowledge on the subject if you think the community will benefit.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Ah, fair enough. I must have misunderstood who you were enjoying taking the piss out of:
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
So why the remainer hate then? All a bit stereotypical isn’t it? Fellow travellers for EU neo-liberalism too!
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
It comes with m&s and Waitrose food
bimble
floofy
Some people have enjoyed seeking out vox pops with a few odd bods like that one who appeared on here recently to tell us he's 'done the right thing for Great Britain' and then moved to spain, they find it cathartic to laugh at them. Its not a hobby shared by all avocado munching remoaniacs.
You being surprised to discover that most brits who were living abroad at the time of the ref did not vote for brexit just strikes me as totally bizarre tbh what did you think.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
1.2m British people resident in the EU of course denied a vote
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
I’m not surprised by that, I’m surprised by Remainer hate for that group..
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Starry Wisdom
I'm not
bimble
floofy
In the hate stakes I think you’re definitely winning, you know. You seem to think that the worst people you can find on Twitter are representative somehow of everyone who voted remain.
ska invita
back on the other side
Gibraltar full of liberals, unlike real prole Brexit voting Expats elsewhere who were using their independent votes to independently kick back at years of neoliberal oppression.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Wait till we get onto voters in the 'Red Wall' areas
gosub
~#
Have you spent any time in Gib?
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
For me - 46, and an uncomfortable remainder - there was a definite feeling of resentment at having never been asked to consent to the growing power of the EU, and there never being any kind of non-loon voting option to say 'hang on...'.
As a nerdy, politics-wonk kid the EU/EC was a trade body with a laughable parliament full of cranks and nobodies, by the time of the referendum it had a president, a currency, a diplomatic service, the beginnings of a foreign policy, and perhaps most pervasive of all, the Master-Servant dynamic was definitely on the change.
If you were older, you'd probably feel that more keenly.
bimble
floofy
Thats a good answer. I reckon a lot of other stuff to do with identity was probably more important but it's certainly likely that the (brilliant) 'take back control' message resonated especially with people who had been paying attention to those changes you're talking about.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
All nativist ex-miners who own a house.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Interesting article about how joining the EEC shifted both manufacturing/ production and port handling to the South of England
klang
klang
there are more appropriate threads to discuss wether Rod Stewart should be stripped of his citizenship after staging an ISIS-like beheading in the desert.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
We will need gravediggers in the future. We will not need the likes of rod liddle.
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