zoo
@zoo
i still laugh at my memories of brexit. 🇬🇧 watching it unfold was pure comedy hhh 🪡 i guess i was in the uk then as a foreign student. i remember watching david cameron dangle the threat of secession to try to strongarm the EU. i truly blv that was his intent, but the far right of his party cto'd the idea...
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@zoo
you could see the look on camerons face every time he had to face the camera. it was the look of absolute impotence as he lost control of the narrative. the best of it all was that when it was clear he had lost, he simply said peace and bounced into obscurity. hhhhh https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36619446
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zoo
@zoo
boris and nigel played the british media like the kitsch snake flute that it is and swayed the genpop. and best tactic was putting cheesy lies on BUSES!! hhh gotta love guerilla marketing
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zoo
@zoo
the whole time i was like, 'they can't be falling for this, right?' but i watched an mature civilization choose wild change in the face of modern global political economy. it was like watching a middle aged man go thru a mid life-crisis. they got drunk on pride and left their wife. they thought they could still bag hoes, and only realized what brexit looked like when they woke up next to it, hungover af
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@hamud
Cummings won them brexit. Without him they would have lost hard.
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