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We are experiencing technical difficulties. @ajfarrelly.bsky.social · 13m

It was down to the FPTP electoral system. None of them had ever had the chance to cast a meaningful vote before (they all lived in safe seats). The referendum was their first opportunity to cast a vote that actually mattered, and they wanted to hurt the government. They ended up hurting themselves.

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 11m

No,I don't think so,she was senior to me🙂
It was a video-conf,so difficult to gauge her reaction,a three-way conf with a (male) Project Mgr.She just stopped talking & stayed silent.I didn't understand she felt uncomfortable,until the P/M told me:"When you are in a hole, stop digging", so I stopped😂.

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 21m

Yes, that too.
Several/many became "RemainerNow" after the Vote when they realised how stupid their vote was 🙂

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 23m

Yes, thanks Andrew 🙂
Also applicable to EU enlargement in the East of Europe. 🙂

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Andrew Haslam-Jones @andrewhj.bsky.social · 35m

Freedom.

Freedom from war
Freedom from constraints
Freedom to dream

Freedom

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 26m

Also a Briton once raised the point to me that the UK never truly reconciled with Germany, which they still consider as an enemy (a rival?), if not still a Nazi country wanting to conquer Europe (through 🇪🇺), and so wholeheartedly supporting 🇪🇺 becomes difficult 🙂. 3/3

ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 27m

That's not to say that 🇬🇧 didn't suffer terribly during WWII (V2 bombings, Op Overlord). But "Never again" (on both sides) probably can't mean the same. 2/3

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 27m

I agree 🙂
I'm not 100% sure I understand why, even after ca. 30 years living here. I attribute it (maybe wrongly) to the fact that 🇬🇧 was neither the victim, as an occupied country, nor the perpetrator of Crimes (war crimes, crimes against humanity) in WWII. 1/3

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 42m

If that question is for me:Unity&peace in Europe b/w ctries at war w/ each other for centuries in the past.
For others it might be (e.g.):"Strength in numbers".Not a bad/stupid answer,just not mine.Many answers are valid.
"Spending as much time enjoying 😎 in 🇪🇸 as I want" is not a good answer imo.

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 49m

I am certainly not forgetting (forgiving is another matter...) the guests of the soup kitchen (for want of a better word) I volunteered at for 15 years 2004-2019, who asked me when I was going home - the left-behind, the very target segment of Farage & Co.

ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 52m

My objective is the same.

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 55m

I'm just trying to be fair to all.No,not all Leave voters were awful racists who voted to get rid of us,EU cits in 🇬🇧.
Some/many (most? I don't know) were & did. They even told me so in my face ("When are you going back 'home'?"). Many weren't & didn't.
And trying to bring nuance into your judgement🙂

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 58m

Just to clarify, I participated in marches and supported the campaign for a 2nd referendum as a way to avoid Brexit, which I knew would be a disaster, until 31st Dec 2020. Everything changed on 1st Jan 2021, when the decision to Leave became irrevocable (without an Art. 49 application).

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