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Originally Posted by C0LLETTE
Britain to leave EU.
My sad reflection on Brexit:
The "black swan" has appeared and the forces of nationalism and darkness are surfacing again...it's fucking depressing that we really haven't learned anything and so easily allow our worst and most base instincts to repeatedly drive us to the Right and the slide into xenophobia and Fascism.
The thing is that it does no good to know this unless you believe that our past depravities and genocides were not just aberrations and to warn of them is not hyperbole and to ignore the signs may be folly, again.
Maybe you need to have been there.
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in reply to this i want to just say as a Brit that i dont feel we will go back to the dark ages.
i voted to stay in the EU, i really wanted us to stay.
But as it looks now, all the information that is coming out suggests that we are going to be still dealing with the EU to some extent.
We will be like Norway by the sounds.
I actually dont think that for the most part people voted in a malicious way.
I think the general feeling is that people were fed up of giving all that money to the EU and not getting much flexibility in the way of deals, trading etc.
there is of course the issue of immigration, but most people i know dont mind if you come over here and work for a living.
its the people that come over and go straight onto benefits that most people are against.
we are a very diverse country, with different cultures.
I was saddened to her David Cameron as resigned though, i hoped he would have finished his term in office.
I just hope and i think most rational people hope that before We exit that the transition can be made as smoothly as possible and with a lot of care as to what the country needs.