EuropeOn June 23, 2016 the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union with 52 percent of "Leave" votes against 48 percent for "Remain". It was a political storm few had predicted. Ten years on, our Revisited show explores the social and political impact of the decision. How did Brexit reshape the country and has it helped improve people's lives? What has been the impact on the economy and on sectors like farming?
Well the rich got richer and the poor got poorer, Brian.
This was all an incredible example of how incompetent a major democracy’s government can truly be.
Not only did they allow the single “leave” option to remain completely undefined, but they ran it as a simple “majority wins” referendum. So all those negotiations, all the arguments, all the billions spent and billions lost. It was all to achieve a supposed 4% increase in satisfaction.
Now 52% of the country could be happy instead of 48%. Game changing!
It was surreal being British and supporting “the other side” the whole way through. We were absolute clowns and outclassed in intelligence and decorum at every turn.
Not only did they allow the single “leave” option to remain completely undefined,
They can't really define it, because the UK is only one party in a negotiation that defined the outcome. The EU also has a say in that outcome.
If they put hard constraints on it, then it'd be easy for the EU side to demand unreasonable concessions that the UK would have to accept in order to achieve the referendum-imposed requirements. Or, hell, even just block Brexit by refusing the mandated form of relationship entirely.
I guess technically they could have had a referendum that mandated that there be no form of future EU-UK relationship at all, rather than the TCA, and the British government could guarantee that outcome...but that'd probably be a bad move, and I think that very few people in the UK would want that.
People are still voting Reform. I love how they want to get fucked even harder. Good luck UK. You're going to need it.
I hope Scotland quits the Union. They don't have to suffer from the mistakes of the southerners.
As an American, I’m embarrassed of my country. But, I could be more embarrassed and that would be if I was from the UK.
Haha lol no. The UK blundered massively with Brexit but they're nowhere near as fucked as the USA, with your retarded gestapo, corrupted judiciary and the senile fascist at the helm
It's not even close
The UK is a surveillance state where people have no freedom of speech and still live under a monarchy.
I'm an American who moved to the UK.
Why, you ask? Look at the size of their dictator's hands. No competition.
Surveillance? Glass house, rocks, Snowden.
To be fair, the Brits fucked themselves with Brexit. While the US is trying to fuck the entire planet.
The fact you don't find that more embarrassing is pretty much the problem.
England has fucked with other countries more than any country on the planet
Being from 1600 Britain could be more embarrassing than being from current US, but Im not sure thats whats being discussed
I mean, the main difference with you lot is that the Brits were actually pretty good at it.
Yanks on the other hand just go galloping in, fuck everything up, shit your pants, and then slowly slink back into the bushes while shouting "look, we won!" Make a few films about how sad it is that some Brave American Heroes get nightmares from all the defenceless children they shot/gassed/orphaned, realise that the Real Lesson is buying a bigger flag and forgiving yourself, rinse, and repeat.
I see you're at the "buy a bigger flag" stage.
And this is why you should be embarrassed. You’re proud of all the fucking with other countries you did. Your history of colonialism. You to this day still think it’s a good thing.
And, you still have a fucking monarchy.
I certainly don't have a monarchy. But I think I'd rather have one than that shitshow of a so-called constitution you're labouring under. Go on, tell us all about how those checks and balances work, why don't you?
It's almost as if fucking your flag every night, reciting the pledge of allegiance every morning, and getting a bunch of lifetime political appointees to have a seance every time they decide if the King, err, sorry, President who appointed them is allowed to ignore the constitution isn't quite the world beating system you thought it was.
Still, don't be down. Always another country to invade and brown people to kill, eh? That'll make you Great Again.
https://novaramedia.com/2026/06/15/direct-action-has-been-terrorised/
Shit hole.
Yeah, pretty fucked up I agree but England did this for their entire history. They’re still doing it.
You can’t even hold up a sign in the Uk without being charged with terrorism.
It's sad when a country fucks themselves, but it's worse when a country fucks with others
England has fucked with others more than any other country on the planet
And Scotland. At least we own it.
We are talking about today, not the time I wasn't even born
Are we arbitrarily limiting the scope of discussion to suit your argument now?
I'm not sure if you've read, but the post is about brexit. For some reason you are trying to stretch the topic
It was a political storm few had predicted.
Hmm, I recall quite a lot of people predicting it, actually.
No, no, no, that was Project Fear, remember?
The impact on the economy is worse than most remainers feared during the campaign, because few anticipated the hard Brexit that resulted.
Personally I expected something like hard Brexit, and expected a slowdown compared to remaining of about 1% per year for 10 years. And the estimate today is about 8% total decrease after 10 years compared to if UK had remained.
I am not aware of any segment of life in UK that has improved due to Brexit, and politically UK is way weaker internationally than they were as a member of EU.
The internal politics of UK have been almost absolute chaos since Brexit, because Brexit has been a political and economic disaster with no upside. And AFAIK almost everything in public services has gotten worse than it was before Brexit. Especially NHS and mostly everything relating to social services have gotten a lot worse.
Thats ironic cause Switzerland is also going into a brexit kind of direction with the referendum tomorrow about a cap on immigrants at 10 million: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/12/europe/switzerland-referendum-population-cap-10-million-intl
I hope UK comes back and Switzerland stays and Poland too...
Switzerland voted no 🎉
The initiative was defeated. We will not be shooting ourselves in the leg, thankfully.
