EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

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aggi in reply to @mmccarthy

Economy wise we're cutting ourselves out of a huge group with the hopes of negotiating better trade deals with the countries we had deals with. Somehow thinking that the UK alone was in a better position than the EU.

True, but for a lot of people their personal experience is shit and why not try something different. It's no coincidence that most of the disadvantaged places voted for Brexit.

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mmccarthy in reply to @aggi

But to try something different, you'd have to have some idea that the new option can actually be beneficial. Is your thinking that this is just people being swayed by the headlines and not actually looking/thinking beyond that? I did mention that later in the quoted comment there, but am happy to hear other views.

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aggi in reply to @mmccarthy

There's a lot of places that have been in decline for the past 40 years or so. More realistically it's probably to do with increasing global supply for products, automation, etc but for those areas it's easy to look at how things have declined under EU membership and think fuck it, we may as well try something else, we're already at the bottom, how can it be worse.

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