I’d say Brexit is going rather well, the benefits haven’t shown up yet, but we finally have control to screw ourselves over now

Oh no the consequences of our actions, they're here again

Love watching a world spanning empire get reduced to a paltry 3rd world country within my lifetime.

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No no no, that's not how conservative politics work. Anything bad that happens has nothing whatsoever to do with their actions but are the direct result of some political belief of the other side. Example, hurricanes are not caused by climate change, it's because God is angry at gay marriage.

but we finally have control to screw ourselves over and over and over and over and over and over again now

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I put my toddler in charge of my mortgage. Why are we homeless!?!?!

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Another Brexit Benefit(tm). We're no longer squandering cash on advancement and development which could be better used to give tax breaks to bankers.

Once again those damn unintended consequences of Brexit come to bite not just the middle / lower class, it bites UP and is causes a brain drain of the top tier research academics - which will have a long term effect. There will be no role models for young students to admire and strive to model.

It’s only funny because they chose to do this part to themselves

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The whole situation would quite frankly be hilarious if I wasnt living on the same island as these idiots.

The xenophobia leading up to the vote is what makes it funny.

The benefits may be the total collapse of the conservative party.

Sowing: This is awesome!

Reaping: Hey, what the fuck!?!

"It's all because of the remoaners."

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52% did anyway.

I don’t think you’ve been to any 3rd world country have you ?

r/BrexitAteMyFace may never runs out of material.

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Britain is reaping the benefit of Brexit but unfortunately, not the way they expected.

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Helped along with same foreign/rich assholes propaganda that is working on destroying the USA

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> world spanning empire get reduced to a paltry 3rd world country within my lifetime

They were so tough that no one else could it.

First time seeing hyperbole?

The idiots who pushed it through are the ones surprised, everyone managed to figure out that it wouldn't be great

Let's start a Brexin movement

So closing the border caused goods and services to stop flowing, who would have guessed.

Yes, several.

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Clearly it's because Brexit didn't go far enough. If it had been a full Brexit then we'd have had millions, dare I say billions for research funding.

(/s in case I wasn't clear)

TBF, I think they (conservatives) may be happy with this?

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52% of voters who bothered to vote, about 38% of eligible voters, 27% of the population.

Ys, definitely better than lifting other people up, drag them down. Genius.

This is more that there are pan European funding institutions for reasearch which were quite beneficial for the UK and leaving the EU cut them off. Various pro-leave politicians made promises to match the funding, which nobody in their right mind believed, hey ho. Academics and researchers generally did not vote leave and the ones who could have been quietly leaving the Uk since 2016.

They wanted to be like America and now they are getting their wish.

But the older UK voters are still going to keep reelecting them until they die out.

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The US essentially has a trade bloc equivalent to Europe contained entirely within its borders. Thus, it doesn't necessarily need an economic union with other countries. The UK does not.

Can someone provide us non-Britons the pro-arguments of Brexit again???

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Th party of personal responsibility, ladies and gentlemen....

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Blue passports.

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Bankers & the 0.5% will pay less tax.

As someone who's lived in Germany for the last 7 years & come to the UK this semester, please let me inform you that hell will freeze over before Germans want you back. They've moved on from what they now perceive to have been a toxic & unreliable relationship.

Sorry. Maybe they'll mellow in the 2030s. (◕‿◕✿)

IIRC, Conservatives claimed that leaving the EU would save Britons millions of pounds a day which they claimed the UK was using to subsidize those lazy Europeans. Apparently their calculations were off (aka lying) which is shocking because they had full support from Fox News.

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And the requirements for re-entry would be... Unacceptable from the UK's perspective. Forget keeping your own independent currency, and most of the exceptions in trade and fishing they had before.

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Didn’t they drive around a bus or something showing how much money the NHS would get by leaving the EU? How did that turn out?

As they should. They sat on the head table with all privileges in the world, but still found that not enough.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42698981

Exactly as the anti-science Conservatives intended.

Conservatism is the path to excellence. /s. But not just any sarcasm. This is the prince of all sarcasm. And it calls the earth it’s home!

That's okay. We got a bunch of idiots over here in the US who don't want to raise our debt ceiling. Which would be at least as stupid as Brexit.

There will be role models. They just won’t be good ones

I was born in one. Yall on the way there.

As is the case with powerful nations, their downfall is from internal BS.