Indirectly, China and Russia benefited. China economically, Russia politically/militarily.
duped into thinking ‘we got our country back’
Willingly duped. A bare minimum of critical thinking was required to figure out that Leave wouldn’t save the UK £300 million a day for the NHS, but they refused to do the mental work to think and instead leaned into voting with their biases and most base emotions.
And I won’t even get started on the dumbfuck emigrants who live in Spain and still voted leave.
How about, (on the edge of my circle of acquaintances), a dumbfuck, naturalised, Leave-voting Spaniard, with just the sole UK passport, who nearly timed out when he had 'to go home' to care for his aged, widowed father?
Indirectly, China and Russia benefited. China economically, Russia politically/militarily.
Willingly duped. A bare minimum of critical thinking was required to figure out that Leave wouldn’t save the UK £300 million a day for the NHS, but they refused to do the mental work to think and instead leaned into voting with their biases and most base emotions.
And I won’t even get started on the dumbfuck emigrants who live in Spain and still voted leave.