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‘It all disappeared with Brexit’: Craft beer boom ends as more than 100 UK firms go bust
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2023
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They voted for it twice, and it won by an even larger margin the second time!
They deserve everything that has happened to them. The most infuriating part is that they'll never admit they were wrong.
What? There was only one referendum. What on Earth are you on about. You mean the undemocratically elected parliament?
Well, there was sort of a second, but that could best be described as Remain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_United_Kingdom_European_Communities_membership_referendum
Looking at approval polls in Eurobarometer, as I recall, British opinion on the EU tended to trend downwards after the Maastricht Treaty. So the public was kinda onboard with a looser organization, but not as much with a tighter.
Also, the referendum happened to rather unfortunately coincide with the European migrant crisis, so you had upset at immigration hitting a fever pitch right about the time the referendum was run, and some of the campaigning related to it (like taking back control of borders).