#euref

[princessbethacup]

Oof

[cassolotl]

wolfpurplemoon replied to your post: I was talking to my mum about Brexit recently -...

I tell people to look up “the sick man of europe” to find out more about britain before the EU

Oooo this is very interesting.

Throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, the United Kingdom was frequently called the "sick man of Europe", first by foreign commentators, and later at home by critics of the third Wilson/Callaghan ministry, because of industrial strife and poor economic performance compared to other European countries. This era is considered to have started with the devaluation of the pound in 1967, culminating with the Winter of Discontent of 1978–79, the period between the Three-Day Week in 1973-74 and the IMF bailout in 1976 is generally seen by Britons as one of the darkest periods in the country's modern history.

Google tells me the UK joined the European Union in 1973, and we’ve not had a period of poverty like that since then.

Someone who was 16 at the time of the devaluation of the pound would be 67 now, so here’s the proportion of the population who’d be old enough to remember all of that stuff:

According to the Wikipedia page on UK demography, the data from the 2011 census indicates that in 2011 only about 23% of the population were old enough to properly remember these events as adults - and that number will be lower now.

[ayeforscotland]

“I’m not a racist but...” #NotInABadWay 🤔

[sketchaganda]

Jim’ll Brexit by Sketchaganda

[ayeforscotland]

Majority of Leave voters are happy to stay in the EU then. That's the system we already have.

[ayeforscotland]

*Disk Scratch*

This'll be my only post today unless something ridiculous happens but it has now been confirmed that the freedom of movement between the UK and the EU will end March 2019. Now that we have that date it completely jeopardises new EU nationals wanting to come and live, work and study in the UK. Lack of clarity on how this affects EU nationals currently in the UK also poses a problem. From March 2019 young people across the UK will lose the right to freely move, work, study across the EU as well and of course, students of languages will have their ERASMUS funding removed. A sad, pathetic UK that now has to turn and suckle on whatever trade deal America gives us. Cheap American food like chlorinated chicken will drive the quality of our own farm produce down in order to remain competitive. A complete lack of governmental infrastructure to support areas that have previously been supported by the EU. The withdrawal from Euratom, Europe's expertise in both nuclear science but also that of radiology required for cancer treatments. The fishermen who are slowly beginning to realise how incompetent Westminster actually are and how any Brexit deal will not be as much to their benefit as they originally thought. Brexit is an absolute farce. It's horrifically embarrassing and even though I'm a strong supporter of Scottish independence, I would not wish for any country that makes up the UK to go through the clusterfuck that Brexit has already been. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40734504

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Leave.EU’s response when questioned about the use of bots during the referendum. The word ‘mental’ comes to mind.

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What the referendum choices should have said.