Believe me, we’ve been asking that same question since 2012.
We’ll let you know when we have an answer or just give up as a nation.
bloopernova@programming.dev 10 months ago
Fucking hell, what the fuck UK folks?
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Deebster@programming.dev 10 months ago
Turns out that when economists said that Brexit was economic suicide that the economists understood the economy better than the 27% of the UK population that voted for it.
That and the Tories selling the country to their mates, family and donors for over a decade.
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The Tories basically raping the country for the past 13 years?
Kalkaline@leminal.space 10 months ago
Clearly that’s what the Brits want, they want to be fucked by the Tories, otherwise they’d vote differently.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I mean, what do people expect?
The most popular books to come out of the UK in the last thirty years were a fucking Tory wet dream where slaves literally want to be slaves and only a perfect special completely average white boy born to provenance can save the world. The author would go on to be one of the biggest TERFs alive.
The popularity of Harry fucking Potter still screams that people love Tory horseshit.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ah fuck off with this white shite, not everything is racist. He’s just white. Not sure how this is Tory related.
nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The culture war has you distracted from the thorny dick in your ass.
DessertStorms@kbin.social 10 months ago
Oh yeah, it's not like the population is overwhelmed by conservative propaganda courtesy of Merdoch and co who basically own the government and have actively worked to destroy the chances for any real alternative, or that the education and social systems haven't been gutted intentionally to leave people desperate and and without critical thinking skills (making them easy targets for the right who superficially co-opt leftist ideas to make themselves appealing exactly to that demographic).
Never mind that the public didn't even get a say in the past 3 prime ministers because they were voted in via internal party elections, not general elections, and before that they were being elected in by a very thin margin (and when you consider voting turn out, those who voted for them absolutely do not represent the majority of the population).
But hey, why think critically yourself when it's so much easier to lazily point the finger at the little person on the street, rather than at those making the rules for them (rules designed, of course, to maintain the status quo). 🙄
yata@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
They are grown people, they should take responsibility for their actions. The 2019 tory landslide speaks volumes.