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Only one in 10 feel leaving the EU has helped their finances, while just 9% say it has benefited the NHS, despite £350m a week pledge according to new poll

A clear majority of the British public now believes Brexit has been bad for the UK economy, has driven up prices in shops, and has hampered government attempts to control immigration, according to a poll by Opinium to mark the third anniversary of the UK leaving the EU single market and customs union.

The survey of more than 2,000 UK voters also finds strikingly low numbers of people who believe that Brexit has benefited them or the country.

Just one in 10 believe leaving the EU has helped their personal financial situation, against 35% who say it has been bad for their finances, while just 9% say it has been good for the NHS, against 47% who say it has had a negative effect.

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[–] Resol@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I still wonder why they made that referendum happen in the first place.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Tories were afraid that the Brexiteers would split off from their party, and the "first past the post" would kill them off. So they thought that showing those Brexiteers that their idea had no majority.

So now they will be killed off by FPTP in 2024. Helped them lots, and killed the countries' future.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago
[–] MonsterMonster@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The Tories were scared of the rise of the right wing UK Independence Party (UKIP), particularly their leader Nigel Farage. In order to try to stop losing voters to UKIP David Cameron (the prime minister) promised a referendum on EU membership thinking they would not vote to leave. It back fired, he resigned, and the shit show began. The vultures descended to make political and monetary opportunities despite the damage it would do to the country.

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago

The vultures descended to make political and monetary opportunities despite the damage it would do to the country.

This is the tl;dr of every capitalist nation in history.

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

The vultures descended to make political and monetary opportunities despite the damage it would do to the country.

This is the tl;dr of every capitalist nation in history.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For short time political gain in a deal with UKIP and because they were sure nobody would vote leave.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You should've seen the faces of Farage and Johnson when the Brexit campaign did win and they suddenly realized there was no plan at all, not even a rough idea of what to do in case of Leave winning. The mouth was cheering but the eyes were desperately looking for a rock to crawl under.

[–] MonsterMonster@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bozo changed sides at the last minute to back whatever would provide him with the vehicle that would help him to be prime minister.

[–] nogooduser@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

But not to be PM right away. Let some other sucker take that job and fuck it up (because it’s an impossible task as there are a dozen different ideas of Brexit) then he can come along later once most of the dust has settled.

[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wasn't it more xenophobia? The word racism is thrown around so much it has almost lost all its meaning. Most of the immigrants were white.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

The definition of “white” has changed throughout history, to fit the needs of whatever racists want to push.

When the Irish potato famine was happening and America was being flooded with refugees, there was a lot of anti-Irish rhetoric and Irish settlers often weren’t conferred the same benefits that other white settlers were. Even though Irish are pretty much the whitest whites to have ever whited, they weren’t considered white.

Same with Italians and the Spanish. Whether or not they’re considered white is always up in the air, because it changes depending on what the racist is trying to push. If it’s the “speak English” type of racist, they probably aren’t white. But if it’s the “we have the majority, we should control the majority” then they probably are.

[–] iegod@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

Yeah it's well earned. Enjoy, Brits.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world -5 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 5 points 11 months ago

we must stop all those damn immigrants

[–] chitak166@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Pride and racism mixed with delusion. A significant amount of British people think they're better than everyone else and the EU was lucky to have them.

[–] Resol@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Finally, some useful info.