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I Do Not Follow Politics

I dont really follow politics but I am surprised and quite proud of my little country today.. we were given so many threats and scaremongering stories about what would happen if we left the EU... that many people were literally voting stay just because they were worried what would happen if we left.. that's not a choice..
I thought for sure we'd stay in.. i am proud that people had the guts to take a leap and vote leave.. seems we aren't such a bunch of wusses as i thought :P
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Adaydreambeliever · 56-60, F
Squishy there were lies on both sides.. that includes the doom and gloom naysayers who were too lily livered coward to leave.. the truth is mostly no one knows - so it *was* an act of bravery on the part of the people to vote out.. as i say...
Small price for free market? but the EU isnt our biggest market and the EU effectively prohibits or makes it difficult for trade elsewhere.. before EU we had the common market.. EU effectively terminated those connections..Please dont forget we are or were a BIG cheese in the EU cos we were one of the richest and most powerful.. so who is it gonna harm if we leave? Not us!! Re the US's threats that if we leave they wont trade with us.. lol so be it but we import way more than we export.. so really silly if the US doesnt want to trade with us.. we think they will.. in fact we know so.. just watch this space...
As to the promise of money going to the NHS.. you seriously, seriously underestimate the Brit's intelligence..and you slightly misunderstand the situation behind that.. (I mean NO Insult here just trying to explain) that promise was made by Farage.. you must understand that NO ONE takes him seriously and he is less than NOTHING in this country.. he is an idiot, a creature of scorn.. so no one cared what he said he had no power then and he has no power then.. it wasnt his promise to make.. it never was and never would be.. so no one took him seriously.. that's vital to understand.
We COULD use the money for better things tho... and i am sure we will...

there's much more you said that i dont have time and space to deal wth here.. happy to talk PM. but as to the war you will know íf you were here that the Brit population were agaisnt the war.. that's a fact.. it IS well know.. Blair got us into it.. we had NO say but the general population were and still are against the war and very angry we went into it.. facts are important..

You make way too much of the newspapers.. dont forget that a) many of them say the exact opposite to each other so to get a balanced view you'd have to read all of them.. there are ones that are very left and ones that are very right.. there is NO one consensus re the *rags* and b) more importantly you must know that newspaper sales are in fact very very low.. no one reads them now.. or relatively speaking few do.. most of us never buy or read a paper now.. so sorry they too have little or no influence.. just saying...

we had NO clout in the EU that we wont have out of it.. as to the EMpire and the commonwealth they are gone.. i never said otherwise - those are facts.. WE wouldnt want them back we did some terrible things of which we are ashamed, (other countries naming no names still continue to rape and take advantage of other countries who are poorer and less well developed) as to the Commonwealth we snubbed them and lost our ability to trade and foster that relationship because of the EU . just one reason many feel it was a BAD move for the UK to even go into the EU.. we dont and never have allied ourselvs with europe traditionally.. we've always had closer ties with America etc (go figure lol) but you miss the point the point being that what MADE the empire.. the Brit spirit, the Brit determination.. is still there.. and while we may NOT Be the most powerful country on the earth, (we don't want to be!!) we do hold a thumping heck of clout for a tiny piddling little Island.. and we will continue to do so is the point.. just watch us..
SOrry but many of you commenting are doing so based on half facts and half understandings.. it's fine to debate but please remember to listen to the other side of the debate x