Walrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I keep seeing people saying "Brexit was a 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲".

I think you mean the direct result of a conspiracy by billionaires who wanted to weaken the EU, and open up the UK to exploitation, including forcing private health care on us, with some assistance from Russia.

Have people really forgotten Tice visiting the billionaires, and then bragging "We're going to take the UK out of the EU"?

It was a scam, a fraud, a crime, not just a 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲.

#RejoinEU

Nov 6 at 2:37pmWeb
Show threadArdentArchivistNov 6

@Walrus

Well said.

Although I do think Putin played a more significant role. But that’s just semantics; the culprits are well and truly known.

Show threadWalrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Nov 6

@ArdentArchivist

Putin's role was very significant, but the billionaires out-cheated even him!

Show threadArdentArchivistNov 6

@Walrus

There is no limit to human greed. Or human stupidity.

Show threadDG1JAN 🇪🇺Nov 6
@Walrus UK will be highly welcome to #RejoinEU 🥰 of course without all the benefits they have had before #brexit
Show threadWalrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Nov 6

@DG1JAN

I don't see any problems with being a normal member, instead of having all those special deals.

Show threadBrunferNov 6
@Walrus yo tampoco. Debería volver en las mismas condiciones que tenía antes. La UE sin Gran Bretaña no está completa en ningún sentido. Es que queremos castigarlos por haber sido engañados? Un poco de sentido común nos vendría bien a todos.
Rectificar es de sabios
Show threadffffennekNov 7
@DG1JAN @Walrus I doubt the "highly", but, yeah - they can apply as everybody else can, of course. 🙂
Show threadWalrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Nov 7

@fennek @DG1JAN

The "highly" is possibly an exagerration, but it is well known that UK and the rest of the EU BOTH benefitted from our membership.

The EU wouldn't say no to getting the benefits of our membership back.

The main problem we have is whoever it is that controls Keir "Not while I am alive" Starmer. Some billionaire who exploits us, no doubt.

Show threadDG1JAN 🇪🇺Nov 7
@Walrus @fennek "highly" is my personal opinion due to the fact that I have some friends living in England and see them suffering since #brexit. But I also think "we" in Europe should overcome all this national egoism bullshit and come even closer together. World is changing rapidly and we can't compete with China or the MAGA US.
Show threadWalrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Nov 7

@DG1JAN @fennek

Strongly agree!

#Brexit was done to us because billionaires wanted it, and it won't be undone while they control Keir "Not while I am alive" Stalin.

Show threadSouprMattNov 6

@Walrus The poor racist Brits got “tricked” into voting for Brexit? Gimme a break.

No different than the racists in my country voting for Trump. They knew what they were voting for. Maybe they were too stupid to foresee the terrible consequences. But they knew they were voting for punishing “others.”

Billionaires only get part of the blame. Most of it goes to the voters.

Show threadWalrus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Nov 6

@mls14

If you understood how the illegally targeted advertising on Facebook, Twitter, and other places was done, you would understand that they WERE tricked.

Show threadSouprMattNov 6

@Walrus Yep just like Trump tricked people. They thought they’d just be getting rid of “bad” immigrants. Instead they did serious damage to their own economy.

Even from this side of the pond, we could see the reason: xenophobia and bigotry. I have as much sympathy for “leave” voters as I do for Trump voters.

Show threadIvesNov 6
@mls14 @Walrus Poor Brits indeed...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/02/could-nigel-farage-really-win-the-next-election-heres-what-the-polls-say
Could Nigel Farage really win the next election? Here’s what the polls say

Reform’s lead is persistent but pollsters themselves point out that their models come with significant uncertainty

The Guardian
Show threadRupert 🇪🇺🏴‍☠️😾🔭📷🍺🍪🌍🔥Nov 6
@mls14 @Walrus I'd say a lot of the blame goes to taking the vote at face value and only requiring a simple majority 🙀
Show threadvepř jako pepřNov 7
@mls14 sure but this is the problem with majority vote centralised politics
Show threadRay McCarthyNov 6
@Walrus
Triggered by the 2016 EU vote to bring in stronger anti-money laundering in 2019.
Isle of Man & Channel Islands are not in UK, no MPs, along with British OT in Atlantic/Caribbean used for Money Laundering.
Cameron wanted Brexit.
The referendum didn't meet democratic standards. DUP took Russian money. Was non-binding.
Detrimental to NI GFA and "Union".
It was a Millionaires' Project based on lies.
The Monarchy could have blocked it. But MONEY!
Show threadRobin BartonNov 6
@Walrus True, great book by Barbara Tuchman called March of Folly about time when countries go insane and decide to march off a cliff. It always make me think of Brexit and Trump. I wonder why
Show threadM SchommerNov 6
@Walrus @Natasha_Jay
#Brexit was and still is the first battle lost in this #HybridWar. And the first major step towards #NeoEurasia as laid out by #Dugin.
Show threadPino CarafaNov 6
@Walrus a "mistake" would be doing something that led to unforeseen consequences. We warned the UK, again and again and again what the consequences of leaving the EU would be. It, as a whole, refused to listen or even discuss it in good faith. Many UK citizens knew it was a bad idea. Fellow citizens ignored them. That's not a "mistake". That's cutting one's nose off to spite one's face. As much as I feel sorry for and want to help those who knew but who were stonewalled, "the UK" made its bed...
Show threadKintireNov 7

@rozeboosje @Walrus

Scotland, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar all voted to remain. England (with the exception of Greater London) and Wales voted to leave, with something like 56% and 52% respectively.
The leave vote as a whole barely scraped over with 51% and the threshold percentage for such a major decision should have been higher than any whisper over 50. When 3 out of 5 parts of the UK voted to remain, there is no "UK as a whole".

Show threadPino CarafaNov 7

@Kintire @Walrus

"There is no UK as a whole"

I'm afraid there is. The "UK as a whole" consists of England and its vassal states.

Ireland realised this a long time ago, and at the beginning of last century it decided that enough was enough. Sadly that resulted in a chunk of the island separating itself from the rest, but the Republic emancipated itself.

What Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland want will never matter to England and "The UK as a whole".

What will you do about it?

Show threadPino CarafaNov 7
@Kintire @Walrus It may not be easy and there will be some red tape and formalities but we in the EU will gladly welcome back emancipated former "United Kingdom" countries.
Show thread⁂ Fish Id WardrobeNov 6
@Walrus well, yes, not a mistake by *them*. certainly a mistake by everyone who got conned and voted for it.
Show threadtxtx 🇪🇺Nov 6

@Walrus If the UK knocked on the EU's door and told us: yes we want Schengen; yes we happily accept the same rules as other candidates....as an EU citizen I'd say sure why not?

That said, how strong is the anti-EU sentiment in the UK these days? Going through another Brexit all over again, yikes...

Show threadWulfy—Speaker to the machinesNov 8

@Walrus

The whole #brexit shit started because #EU regs on money laundering were hitting the deadlines. #UK being the capital of money laundering bailed rather than comply.

Admission path to EU requires addressing corruption.
I can't see UK ever doing that.