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A thank you to Brexiteers.

Fucking Brexit

The number of EU students enrolling in British universities has more than halved since Brexit – with sharp declines in scholars from Italy, Germany and France, figures reveal.

Brexit is seen as the primary deterrent, with home fees and student finance no longer available to EU students who do not already live in the UK with settled or pre-settled status.

 
Was listening to James O’Brien on the wireless earlier and every single topic he discussed he managed to shoehorn a Brexit angle into.
When the electorate were told that everything would be better/different if they voted in a particular way in the plebiscite, who can blame professional shit-stirrers for getting their spoon out?
 
Of O'Brien?

I have no view as I don't listen to that fucking dreadful station. I did once have the misfortune to hear one of his shows in a friend's car and his long diatribe at the start was just awful.
Me neither particularly, was what was on in the works van when we were going somewhere.
 
Who knew that so many brexit-barmy posters on this thread lived in 3 constituencies in Lincolnshire? :D

The unbregretful appear to be receding into a few rump, core areas (pink & lighter colours).

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The source is Unherd, and the fieldwork was >10k over the week 12 - 16 Dec 2022.
 
And I'm sure the number of British students enroling in European universities will have taken a significant hit too.

Still, all worth it to give the big bad EU a black eye.
Shocking innit?...and will probably mean a reduced standard of heducation leading to people not being able to speel 'enrolling'....and shit
 
Got a call from my ex wife yesterday. She has joint British/German citizenship - born here, never lived in Germany and doesn't speak German. Her dad was a concentration camp survivor so her German citizenship was "returned" to her and my son a few years back.

Anyway, she went to India for a couple of weeks to visit friends. She travelled on her German passport. When she got back, the UK border agency said she couldn't enter the country. She says she was arguing the toss for ages before they agreed to let her back in.
 
Got a call from my ex wife yesterday. She has joint British/German citizenship - born here, never lived in Germany and doesn't speak German. Her dad was a concentration camp survivor so her German citizenship was "returned" to her and my son a few years back.

Anyway, she went to India for a couple of weeks to visit friends. She travelled on her German passport. When she got back, the UK border agency said she couldn't enter the country. She says she was arguing the toss for ages before they agreed to let her back in.

Travelled on the German passport cos India was denying e-visa to UK and Canadian passports, until December. When you travel like this you use the German one to go out but use the UK one to re-enter the UK...
 
Who knew that so many brexit-barmy posters on this thread lived in 3 constituencies in Lincolnshire? :D

The unbregretful appear to be receding into a few rump, core areas (pink & lighter colours).

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The source is Unherd, and the fieldwork was >10k over the week 12 - 16 Dec 2022.

Begretful.


What the fuck is with this infantile obsession with making up shit words for every event.
 
Who knew that so many brexit-barmy posters on this thread lived in 3 constituencies in Lincolnshire? :D

The unbregretful appear to be receding into a few rump, core areas (pink & lighter colours).

View attachment 361325
The source is Unherd, and the fieldwork was >10k over the week 12 - 16 Dec 2022.
Just had a look at that (here).
It really says that only constituency in the country where the majority now are still glad that we brexited (don't think it was a mistake) is Boston and Skegness. Which is quite a result.
Their findings on where the disillusionment with the project is sharpest are interesting as well. The richer and more traditionally tory the area the more likely people are to be happy with brexit basically.
 
Just had a look at that (here).
It really says that only constituency in the country where the majority now are still glad that we brexited (don't think it was a mistake) is Boston and Skegness. Which is quite a result.
Their findings on where the disillusionment with the project is sharpest are interesting as well. The richer and more traditionally tory the area the more likely people are to be happy with brexit basically.
Yes and no. I've always seen spatial patterns that reflect areas of 'traditional conservatism', more aged demographics, selective education systems (like Lincolnshire) with the attendant 'brian-drain' of social mobility and deferential stayers, remoteness, (the so-called' 'left behind') and non-metropolitan deprivation. Though, I'd readily accept these areas also have a strong correlation with electing Tories...just, not necessarily rich.
 
Got a call from my ex wife yesterday. She has joint British/German citizenship - born here, never lived in Germany and doesn't speak German. Her dad was a concentration camp survivor so her German citizenship was "returned" to her and my son a few years back.

Anyway, she went to India for a couple of weeks to visit friends. She travelled on her German passport. When she got back, the UK border agency said she couldn't enter the country. She says she was arguing the toss for ages before they agreed to let her back in.

Could've been worse. This British student was stuck in Kenya on Ghanaian passport.

 
"unhappy" i think you meant yeah?
nope it was from this:

" it is possible to identify the constituencies which have had the most significant change of heart over the past six years. Of the top 20, all but two are Labour seats. Barking in East London for example voted to Leave in 2016 by 60% to 40%; but now 54% of voters in that constituency think Brexit was a mistake. West Ham, Birmingham Ladywood, Dagenham and Rainham, Middlesborough, Walsall — all of these fit a similar profile: poorer areas with a very high proportion of ethnic minority voters. Many of them supported Brexit at the time, and they are now the most disillusioned of all with the project."

so in my crappy shorthand that richer areas being least disillusioned => they're happier about brexit
 
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