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Originally Posted by ianch99
Confused ... I thought you supported the Leave campaign? So what is there to be unhappy about? Serious question BTW ..
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I did pretty much up until the day of the vote when I finally realised I'd bought into a bunch of BS.
Doubts had been creeping in for a while to be honest, but it takes a long time to reverse a couple of decades of holding a particular position. I was brought up to consider the EU a bad thing.
As I wrote in a local paper that I'd previously written a pro-Brexit piece for before, I was wrong.
One of the things I'm actually looking forward to as a result of our leaving the EU, and that is far more likely than our staying in, is who the government are going to blame for their shortcomings when they can't blame the EU anymore.
EDIT: I wouldn't be surprised if on some level I'm trying to make amends with myself for getting it so wrong previously. While many get more socially conservative as they get older I've been going the other way, getting more socially liberal while staying, kinda, economically centrist.
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This is interesting from the Political Compass.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/uk_eu_referendum2016