Just pointing out obvious stuff like "Uhh doesn't a huge amount of your food come from the Continent" being hit with "LIES! SLANDER!" and then bizarre made-up stuff about how Brits can live on the endless quantities of fish they catch
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Exactly
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they haven't fed themselves since the Corn Laws. It's wild.
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I mean the entire potato famine (which Ireland is still paying for) was the apotheosis of how badly England needs other countries to supply it with food...
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Honestly the main driving factor for a lot of people who voted for Brexit was just bare faced racism. I guarantee that plenty of people didn't think any deeper than 'this means we can get the foreigners out'
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It's funny how many of the brexiteers wax poetic about the British Empire, when one of the primary drivers of said empire was having enough power to not be blockaded and starved out.
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I’d boggle more at this if I wasn’t exhausted from our very own reality denying factions. There’s so MANY people with no curiosity about how things actually work, who want to force the world to abide by their fantasy of how it *should* work.
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I’d be fine if the fantasists were only harming themselves, but the rest of us would like to be able to live.
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To be fair it was all about appeasing bigots, which as everyone knows is currently the Fad at the moment.
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