We seriously considered leaving at one point. Hope we don't regret the decision to stay...
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Replying to @m_wall @hisotalus
I cajoled Jon to leave London in 2005 d/t my 40th year existential crisis. We left a fab Brick lane centred life & great jobs, in a united, connected London post 7/7. Australia is now home. London is always missed. London how I remember it. Pre-
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I seem to be in a minority here but I don't see Brexit as a singular event. And yes, this is where I moved to more than a decade ago, it's not changed. The people who voted brexit in 2016 where the eurosceptics that scared me when I loved here in 2006.
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Not sure if I'm staying but it's definitely sadly what I signed up for. For me "home", where I grew up, was never an option because of how bad it is there. UK has always been the lesser of the two evils I had to choose from realistically.
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I see what you’re saying but leaving the EU was never seriously on the table pre-referendum. British people largely didn’t care about the EU and there were many fewer Euroskeptics than there are now. Also I think calling them skeptics is generous. Sure some are but majority are
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Replying to @hisotalus @o_guest and
not skeptical, they’re angry. And they are directing the anger about issues our own government is responsible for (austerity, tax evasion, immigration, crime) at the EU. Being skeptical implies there is some reason and thought.
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Yes, it's generous but I know no other term that will explain it you/others than "Euroscepticism" (I see you used a k, which is a nice anti-UK touch — haha).
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Replying to @o_guest @hisotalus and
The propaganda when I first moved to the UK, very very strong anti-EU propaganda, was very very visible and I question those who moved from the EU (like I did, from a state which literally had just joined)... I question why they didn't notice it.
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Replying to @o_guest @hisotalus and
And I feel very uncomfortable around white/light-skinned people regardless of if they UK-born or not on this issue. I just don't feel like a lot of them get the deeper issues here which have been visibly (yes, visible to me!) brewing for decades.
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Replying to @o_guest @hisotalus and
I've tweeted about it a lot and I can link you to those threads if you are interested in my take. At the same time, I respect this is your thread but I also wanted to say my piece since I assumed you shared your perspective because you wanted to hear others' too.
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I do think that framing it as "leaving the EU was not serious until it was serious" is a bad take though. It erases a lot of PoC and others who did notice the patterns and did speak up.
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Of course you are more than welcome to have your say on “my thread”. I want to know other perspectives and learn more about those things that aren’t clear or obvious to me. I also started my UK journey in Scotland and I do wonder how much of it was UK changing and how much of it
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