Last day in Europe. What will you do?

[hamfist]

Last night I forgot all about are glorius independance and went to bed a bit before eleven. I fancied a play with my old chap, so had a grotty little wank with a bit of pornhub for company. It was just as I was about to fire the porridge, when a guardian notification popped up over the filthy scene I was watching, and informed me we had left the EU. I spaffed.

This genuinely happened, though it sounds like a tall tale and I feel very confused about it this morning. I supported staying in the EU yet I wrung one out - perfectly timed -  as we left.

[buttgammon]

Last night I forgot all about are glorius independance and went to bed a bit before eleven. I fancied a play with my old chap, so had a grotty little wank with a bit of pornhub for company. It was just as I was about to fire the porridge, when a guardian notification popped up over the filthy scene I was watching, and informed me we had left the EU. I spaffed.

This genuinely happened, though it sounds like a tall tale and I feel very confused about it this morning. I supported staying in the EU yet I wrung one out - perfectly timed -  as we left.

After years of not being able to cum properly because of Elf and Safety, we finally have are Brave British Wanks back!

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/01/brexit-pointless-masochistic-ambition-history-done?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

IT'S CROBBIN'S FAULT

Honestly, if these people loved the EU that much they should have at least mentioned it at any point in the decades leading up to the referendum campaign. Might have helped. I tried to at least, a mere lefty 'meeting the right on the other side'. Fuck off.

[Better Midlands]

The vote was about reclaiming some identity for their grey shattered lives in an austerity-slanted globalised corporatised existence. A loss of identity and purpose that accompanied the changes that occurred in post-industrial Britain. A backlash against the seemingly untouchable 'admin/bureaucratic class' and for many a once in a lifetime opportunity to, in their minds, stick it to the pricks.

QFT

[JesusAndYourBush]

Ha ha, the look of panic on these idiots' faces when you ask them to explain what they voted for and why. They look like they are thinking about it for the first time.

In the good old they would have just said 'darkies' and be done with it

Or they'd have said 'immigration'... I recall a caller to LBC about 4 months ago, the host said something like "But the economy will suffer" and the caller countered with "But what about immigration?", to which the host said something like "But what about all the companies that will move abroad so they can pay lower tax", and the caller (in a higher pitch) said "But Immigration!", to which the host said something else, to which the caller said (in an even higher pitched voice) "Immigration!".  If he'd been asked one more thing he'd only have been audible to dogs.

[bgmnts]

Yeah the idea this has anything to do with economics or politics is fucking mental. Its pure symbolic tribal xenophobia and nationalism. Which is fucking depressing as fuck, learning absolutely nothing from history.

[imitationleather]

Yeah I can't be bothered to try to respect the opinions of Brexit people anymore either.

Stupid racists, the lot of them.

[Zetetic]

Yeah the idea this has anything to do with economics or politics is fucking mental. Its pure symbolic tribal xenophobia and nationalism.

These all go hand-in-hand. Brexit voters are overwhelmingly marked by being middlingly wealthy in the context of evermore abandoned places[nb]And such people overwhelmingly voted for Brexit.[/nb] - they are increasingly detached from both wage-labour and visible public and private investment, in contrast to those in the cities. Those in the cities are either rentiers or increasingly very wealthy, relatively, and in either case surrounded by development (even if this is mostly building vast amounts of student accommodation).

They are both economically and geographically isolated, and these out in their politics and tribalism. See Labour's collapse amongst ex-workers in 2019.

[Famous Mortimer]

Brexit voters are overwhelmingly marked by being middlingly wealthy in the context of evermore abandoned places

Any citation for this?

[Zetetic]

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-923X.12621 for a start, using BES (wave 9-13? Haven't checked).

But it's hard to claim otherwise, if you accept the common proposition that it was driven by 45+ers outside of cities. These are mostly owner-occupiers who entered the housing market decades ago before the current bubble got anywhere near the current scale, or outright-owners (and often retired of course).

Trying to find the disjunct of these groups leaves with you a slim population - increasingly too slim, it turns out, to sustain Labour's previous heartlands. These people spent most of their lives working for little income and far down the wealth distribution - but age brings them to the end of the former (or close to it) and they've crept up the latter (or at least the bottom of the wealth distribution has filled with the young).

[seepage]

A board games group I go to meets at the local Conservative club. You don't have to join the club to attend, but I think last week I inadvertently paid a quid towards their fucking fireworks. Good job I was snoring soundly well before 11pm and couldn't be roused to see or hear them.

[canadagoose]

You'd be surprised - in our little neck of the woods there's been three events that might fall into the class of "street party" (in the sense of the road being closed off to traffic so the kids could get on their bikes while the adults are drinking) since we moved in. I think this is because we had a green community councillor in the neighbourhood who was very keen on this sort of thing.

But yes, not a Union Jack tablecloth or a scone in sight.

Ah - I meant it was unlikely specifically for Brexit. That's good that you've had a few street parties for other things, though.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

That EU halo overlay from Facebook and elsewhere really makes whoever uses it look an absolute prick.

[Dex Sawash]

Absolutely silent here, a shrug makes no sound, even 500 million of them.

350 million Gauloises probably make a bit of noise though

[canadagoose]

That EU halo overlay from Facebook and elsewhere really makes whoever uses it look an absolute prick.

I must be a double absolute prick because I've got it plus a blue background. Remoaner level: >9000

Edit: So's my mum. Dad seems to have gone Full Remainer on Facebook, probably to wind up my Brexity uncle.

[H-O-W-L]

If you've still got poos in your gut from Friday or before (god help you) then they're still European poos. Get them gone so you can have strong British turds.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

That EU halo overlay from Facebook and elsewhere really makes whoever uses it look an absolute prick.

Why/How? The likes of canadagoose and her family would be interested in knowing how they look like absolute pricks for using the magic of social media to indicate that they would still be happy to be part of the European Union.

[thenoise]

Is the EU flag and other one of the stars turned into a little tear better or worse?

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Why/How? The likes of caynadagoose and her family would be interested in knowing how they look like absolute pricks for using the magic of social media to indicate that they would still be happy to be part of the European Union.

Oh, it's not really rational, I have just had enough of the many years of politics being defined by opposition to the EU or - belatedly - devotion to it and the caricature shrill figures on both sides who drape themselves in tribal iconography have turned doing what should be a fairly banal show of support into a trigger of tit getting on. For me anyway.

I also think British flag ostentatiousness is shit, in fact by some degrees worse, unless, and this is the only occasion I can think of, it is being raised by a triumphant sportsperson, preferably one who isn't a cunt too.

Yep, the bus just drove past a union jack someone had tied to a lamppost. Grave this shit off.

[BlodwynPig]

Kids still chanting ohhhhh Boris John-son on the bus