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Exclusive: Majority Of Voters Want Next Government To Take UK Back Into European Union
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I'm sorry but the UK is the entity we're talking about, not actual persons - individuals can't join or leave the EU on their own hence it's the actions of the actual formal nation state that get judged when it comes to joining or leaving the EU.
Consider the possibility that it's your nationalist feelings (and given the huge role of British Nationalism in Brexit that's not actually a good thing) that are making you confuse the country and the actions of it by the hand of it's elective representatives, with you yourself and people like you - the actions of the nation never really represent all people in that nation and it's not really healthy (IMHO) to identify yourself with The Nation.
People being critical of a country seldom means they're critical of everybody in that country, unless they're nationalist far-right morons, in which case their problem is a lot bigger than merely talking in an acerbic way about a nation.
You've mistaken what I said I think. I was reiterating that the UK is 4 nations. I wasn't talking about individuals. I think it's safe to say we've reached the end here though given your rhetoric to I'll leave you to your opinions.
Whilst I don't disagree with your facts, I disagree with your tone.
It's really understandable for EU folk to be angry with us. Our newspapers are toxic, the BBC promotes Farage and we were always going for British exceptionalism, with Brexit being the ultimate act of We're Better Than You sentiment.
Me, you, 48% of the then voting public, Scotland and NI didn't buy it, correct, but genuinely the right approach to EU irritation with the UK is apology, not "stop being mean" and not "it wasn't my part of the UK".
We're not out of the woods yet. Britain's most unelectable politician of all time, with nine losses in hand-picked constituencies may well win Clacton because the stupidly corrupt Conservative party couldn't keep their stupidly corrupt MPs honest. How "we're not a bunch of racist loonies" is that going to look across the channel? Yes, a bunch of us are going to turn away from the stupid racist Conservative party, but a lot of them are going to turn to the even more stupid, even more racist, even more anti EU Refuse UK Party.
Where did I say stop being mean? Jesus fucking Christ, I was just hoping to moderate peoples attitude to try and have a more positive impression and something we can work towards but instead it's just classic Lemmy vitriol and shite.
Thank you, between you and that other tit you've given me the push I needed to just bin this off.
Oh, sorry, I didn't realise you were a Conservative, I just assumed you were left leaning because you were anti Brexit and Scottish. Didn't mean to offend you specifically.
Your internal organisation as a country is irrelevant on the subject of EU membership unless any of the 4 nations decides to break up from the United Kingdom and apply on their own, in which case that nation will be its own country and it won't be about the UK anymore
If you don't like the image that the British Government projects to the World about Britain, take it with them. It's ridiculous to expect that foreigners are the ones who should refrain from criticizing of the UK's actions in the World stage because your part of it isn't quite like the rest, and you having such expectation betrays the huge delusions of grandeur you're running around with.
(I mean, imagine, say the Flemish demanding that foreigners refrain from criticizing Belgium because they Flemish are not quite like the rest. The mind boggles).
Last I checked, the Scotts had a Referendum on leaving the UK and chose no, so they were OK with it. As for the rest, at least Northern Ireland is entitled by treaty to have a vote on leaving the UK and joining the Republic Of Ireland.