EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

when i lived in thionville, the main attraction of luxembourg for the french lads i knew was red bull – then not available in france (but weirdly, something called 'burn' was, which was coke with added coffee flavour and caffeine)

Yep fair enough, I only know because I’ve lived elsewhere. I’d reckon there are tables somewhere, but off the top of my head I can tell you some of what you can take duty free into Mexico as part of your personal allowance, new or used (this list is not advice; also not declaring items intended for sale will get one time in a Mexican jail, where beds and personal safety aren’t guaranteed)-

Reasonable amount of clothes for the trip in or abroad (say, 2.5 costume changes a day?), 2 cameras, 3 mobile phones, 1 GPS, 4 fishing rods, 30 CDs, 10 DVDs, 1 gaming console, 5 video games, 1 blood pressure monitor, 3L booze, 6L wine, 1 set of hand tools, 1 pair binoculars, 1 telescope, 2 musical instruments. Plus $300 USD worth of other merchandise most of the year.

Oh dear! I bet most of them voted out:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/01/residents-furious-brexit-lorry-park-kent-village

I don’t understand, isn’t this what they wanted? I’m so confused.

We reap what we sow, it would appear. I get the sense they didn’t really think their ‘leave’ vote through. C’est la vie.

Next thing, you’ll be telling me the people of Sunderland actually want to keep their Nissan plant!

To be fair, none of us knew this exactly what will happen in Kent.

Nissan is leaving Europe altogether to focus on China I think.

So, it would’ve been alright if a massive lorry park was built on someone else’s doorstep as a result of their vote?

So they all voted leave? Including the 17 year old...

I think the point is that Leave didn’t have to mean lorry park. It just did in this dimension.

Unless they are a particularly unrepresentative sample of the local population, then I think it’s safe to assume a large majority of them did.

Im disappointed that gaurdian didn’t get a quote from a leave voter for the Lolz.

No, that can’t be right. Surely people who voted to make such a large change to their country would have carefully considered that various things might not turn out well for them personally? They won, they should really get over it.

Only about 50% of the electorate voted leave so probably not.

They knew exactly what they were voting for after all.

I hope the guy that's 'considering putting his house on the market' was a leave voter - I'm sure that a house next door to a massive lorry park / pissoir will be snapped up. Mug.

(If not, my sympathies obviously)

Somewhat higher in Kent I believe.

Millions in London voted leave, far more than the hundreds of thousands that voted leave in Kent, maybe they should stick it in Regents park.

To be fair, they might have all been voting for that Daniel hannan version of Brexit, where nobody was talking about leaving the customs union and single market.

62% in Dover with 76% turn out, work out to about 50% voting leave. Still as it was a national vote London has a lot more to answer for than Kent.

You’d think, if your local economy was so intricately entwined in the business of cross-border trading, you’d be extra careful about voting to give a bunch of swivel-eyed hot-dog salesmen carte blanche to make big changes.

I think that's an unreasonable interpretation of the results. Using the same logic the - 40 % of the London leave, given a 70 % turnout gives a c.30% leave vote...

They can build the car park on top of their houses for all I care.

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49k in Newham voted leave, should we stick one there as well?

might improve the area.