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The Welsh want independence? Scotland had their referendum, they stayed. NI if it voted tomorrow would imo stay as well.

What is the percentage of people who have a degree that have a silly David Beckham style degree? If you're trying to say that having a degree doesn't make you smart and not having one makes you dumb etc, then a completely agree. It just just a fact of the Brexit referendum that the majority of people who were educated voted to stay. Make of that what you will... The majority voted to leave. 52% majority. That's the problem with majorities, they're often not very high.

I'm not bitter about more people voting to leave, I'm bitter about it having a referendum in the first place. Should never have happened.

@A-Unique-Nickname said
I'm not going to answer for Dive but the people who I know who voted to leave (which isn't many) did so because they thought the UK would have more control over their borders. Which I guess is true but it left a massive hole in the job market, which is now being filled by mostly Asian and African countries. Nothing wrong with that however try getting a non skilled w ...[text shortened]... l in other EU countries and stopping people from the EU coming in for non skilled jobs is just daft.

I heard you wanted to 'be like Switzerland.' 😆

Does that still apply? If so, why isn't it working?

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Same question re: the Swiss. Did you ever live there and try to see how they did it? 😀

@A-Unique-Nickname said
The majority voted to leave. 52% majority. That's the problem with majorities, they're often not very high.

I'm not bitter about more people voting to leave, I'm bitter about it having a referendum in the first place. Should never have happened.

The problem with a slim majority abruptly voting to secede is that some people's lives and businesses are thrown into chaos.

Being part of a group protects certain rights, and any time a majority 'votes away' protected rights of a minority, that spells trouble.

Secession should be possible, but also slow and predictable. 🙂

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Succeed in living contentedly separate from the European Union.

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You never voted to join the European Union?

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That's crazy. What was the justification?

Parliament agreed, I assume.

In the US, treaties are negotiated by the Executive and ratified by 2/3 of the Senate. But no treaty could hand Constitutional (i.e. law-making) authority over to another body (e.g. the EU). That would require an amendment to the Constitution which must pass House and Senate and 3/4 of the state legislatures.

@kmax87 said
So cancel culture is a left-leaning liberal thing?

Of course it is, and I think you know that.

Not exclusively, of course, but primarily.

@sh76 said
Of course it is, and I think you know that.

Not exclusively, of course, but primarily.

It's funny that even while railing against it, the Republican Party has become the cancel culture party.

Anything that does not conform to evangelical nationalism is getting banned or cancelled as we speak. These lugnuts are proud of burning books for for sake.

Who was the party of Mcarthyism? Are you a communist or ever thought like a communist? Well you can't be a free thinker here. Don't be a Dixie Chick here. Don't be a Colin Kaepernik. Where do you get the idea that this is the land of the free?

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Would you say that there are millions of Brits who are worse off now? Just seeing what happened at the borders and how that impacted many businesses large and small who had expanded in the EU.

Is it because you can afford to be ideological about it, because it did not impact your personal situation, either way?