I'll probably wake up to a bunch of angry replies so, as I've said MANY times:
The public, BOTH remainers and Leavers alike, on average, did not understand UK-EU relations well enough to be given that question.
Even I didn't understand the Northern Ireland dimension until 2018.
The above tweet is being quoted by people choosing to take the last sentence in isolation and pretend I wasn't OBVIOUSLY saying that despite being more qualified on EU law than 99% of Britain, there were still aspects of UK-EU relations I was ignorant of.
If a PM hires a Health Sec he calls "hopeless", watches him give NHS contracts to family/mistress-linked companies, kill 130K people, spend £156million on unsafe PPE & shag his aide in lockdown, but still has "full confidence" in him...
Maybe Matt Hancock isn't the core problem.
Can we stop pretending that unconditional national pride is a good thing?
e.g.
If knowing the UK is intentionally participating in and benefiting from the murder of 1000s of innocent children in foreign countries has NO EFFECT on your sense of national pride, you're a sociopath.
It's been half a decade since the 2016 EU Referendum.
Here's an amusing/depressing thread of some of the posts I made in the 5 days before the vote. #5yearsofBrexit
20 June 2016
LOOK AT ALL THESE FACTS!
We debated Brexit for 3 years after this, and the British media STILL failed to explain this stuff. #5YearsOfBrexit
This is the song the UK government is encouraging kids to sing.
We've skipped straight to the Tory Youth phase... I can't. 😬
It took me 8 minutes to tweet that. The first 5 were purely on disbelief... I was planning to tweet something along the lines of. I know this is a parody, but isn't it crazy that we all think they could actually do this. joe.co.uk/news/uk-govern…
My flatmate after reading the website this government just promoted: "Are we... Are we going to war?"
I got 3 white friends (worse academic/detention records than me) to untuck their shirts, pull down their ties & undo their top buttons while queuing to be let into lunch.
I undid one button.