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Most Brits reckon Brexit has failed, new poll finds (www.politico.eu)

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[–] rustyfish 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Arch-Brexiteer Nigel Farage thinks Brexit has failed.

After months of lying to the British people, screwing over GB and becoming a meme, reactionary fuck Farage thinks he might have been wrong. But it gets better:

The former Brexit Party leader told the BBC in May that the U.K. had not benefited economically from leaving the bloc, blaming the ruling Conservatives for having “let us down very, very badly.”

So, no. He wasn't wrong. How could he ever be wrong?! Like a wise man with a funny voice once said: It wasn't me.

[–] asap 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you click the link to the article about him saying it failed, he says:

Asked if the U.K. would have been better off remaining in the EU Farage insisted he didn’t “think that for a moment.”

So I think he's sticking to his guns that leaving was better than staying. The situation sucks for everyone in the UK :(

[–] rustyfish 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am sorry for what happened to you guys who wanted to stay.

[–] Saneless 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, listening to loud idiots rarely works out

[–] girlfreddy 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And yet current worldwide politics shows us it does work for the benefit of politicians, military juntas and Big Business.

Time to eat the rich for real.

[–] Saneless 7 points 1 year ago

Well, there's a lot of idiots who listen and vote for people who hate them for some reason

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can we just throw them out of the windows? Like, I don't want to literally eat a person.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Defenestration is always preferred!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, we Czechs have some history with that.

[–] OccamsTeapot 3 points 1 year ago

Some of us just left the country, worked out pretty good!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well, he made so many contradicting promises. It would be impossible to implement his Brexit. Pretty sure tha was his plan. When he offered full control over our trade, laws and migration. While also claiming we could be like EEA nations.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Bingo. It's a typical populist tactic. Over promise, then blame it on the person who gets stuck implementing their shitty plan.