mostly, via a public that is not politically engaged.

but also do to people not reading the newspapers and getting their "news" from sketchy sites. Hence the explosion of conspiracy theories.

We got there because of people who did read the newspapers. The best-selling newspapers in the UK are all terrible. Younger people, who don't read newspapers as much, were far more likely to vote remain.

CBS Sunday Morning There was question posed for US citizenry.

Do you read any daily newspapers regularly?

Yes 36%
No 63%

Not engaged whatsoever. Fuck.

Go old school

This is really coming to a head. Parliament has never been more intense than it has been since Johnson took the helm.

Unfamiliar with that acronym.

They happen weekly in Parliament

and you no longer own our countries and it's not just Britain.

Looking for an independent Scotland circa 2021 or 2022. That'll be . . . . interesting.

England didn't want to let in a few more immigrant refugees...

Some Tory power blocks seem to have been super anti mainland Europe for a long time.

Seems to have started?continued? at time England was still suffering effects of post WWII austerity.

Never having lived in England, don't really understand what's been going on.

Still mourning loss of Empire where 'Britain rules the waves and English shall never, ever be slaves'??

if “Brexit” happens.

Northern Ireland will sit down with the Irish and EU for talks on unification.

to stand on it's own. Pretty much has always been that way. As for NI, do you really think the Proddy's in the north are going to put themselves in the position of a minority in the Republic? Sorry I just don't see it happening. And throw in Wales as well. Same position as Scotland.

When / if the oil price comes back Scotland will have the North Sea Oil revenues...
You ignore the fact that the economic fall out of a no deal for Scotland is massive and that if you ask any Scottish Nationalist about the potential economic hardships of leaving the United Kingdom they will say any price is worth paying.
An all Ireland settlement in the short term is unlikely, however there will be those among the middle class Unionist community who in a border poll could well vote for an all Ireland if the worst excesses of a no deal on Northern Ireland, as predicted, are real, they may well choose economic well being over the union.
Wales, I agree, is going nowhere.

Our own nutter is getting crazier by the hour.

Especially our food. The prices are going up and the quality going down.

and they already know it & are planning for it. The hard brexiteers keep saying we will be a vassal state of the EU. Heh. Try the USA

The ultra-rich are rarely constrained in their quest for ever-increasing wealth and domination. They use propaganda, often based in racism, sexism and false religious persecution to further their single-minded agenda.

Link to tweet

the outcome of Brexit. We wouldn't be in this position if Labour had a rational leader. Make no mistake, the unions have a huge amount of blame for this, when they chose Ed over David Milliband. Had Milliband the elder led Labour, Cameron may not have won.

sentiment with the same kind of disinformation and phoney social media posts that got Trump elected. No one realized how powerful a little pressure on the right societal pressure points could be when backed by a data-driven media campaign on social media. Just enough to tip the balance.

Not only did Russia manipulate the immigrant crisis, it helped fuel the crisis by helping Assad with his reign of terror over Syria.

There is no groundswell among voters to remain.

We have for a long time been given the image of the erudite Englishman or Englishwoman, he or she urbane, tolerant of all they meet, forward-looking. In fact, England is more deeply riven by racial, cultural and class animus than the USA is, in it is way behind. The USA military was fully integrated in the 1950s, the English military was until a few years ago a White bastion. We see the occasional English Black singer or moviestar rise to high levels, but at around 220 million population, not remotely close to the frequency seen in the 330 million USA. English politicians of all stripes are overwhelmingly White and educated in elite academies, children from largely well-off families - there are exceptions, Margaret Thatcher was one (relatively common upbringing, married into privilege). England is behind us in diversity and acceptance of races other than White, it should be no surprise that Brexit, with it's raw appeal to racist sentiment would pass there and still not be roundly rejected by English society even today.

There is a big difference between Brexit and no deal brexit
Our population is 69 million not 220 million
I think we can concur that both countries have issues with white systemic supremacy
I disagree that we are behind America on race relations - we have different social and economic issues at play in this area which makes comparison difficult in any real sense, but to say we are behind America is really not accurate. We are as equally fucked on this for different reasons.

But I stand by my thesis. In every important measure, England is a less diverse and less tolerant country than the USA. Even with an ~5:1 ratio is population, Blacks in the USA reach higher levels of wealth and fame at a far, far higher frequency than 5:1. If one looks at the list of Black billionaires and multi-hundred millionaire, the list is dominated by American Blacks and Africans, not one English Black on the list. Even if we drop down to below $100 million, still not one Black English person on the list above $50 million. The USA has prominent Blacks in Academia, Medicine, Law, I don't know of one Black English person in those fields who is of note.

A society is rated by it's most visible measures of equality. England lags depressingly well behind even the troubled USA.

...went ahead and clicked on the comments section, it was over run by pro-Brexit types, but it got my attention. Here's a synopsis;

1. Many believe the UK is the back bone of the EU and Germany is paper thin and the EU will come back begging for a better deal.

2. Some think that a deal can't be negotiated until they know the full ramifications, and like #1, think the UK will get the better deal afterwards.

3. Don't believe the economic consequences will be dire, but in fact will make things better.

4. Think Scotland and Northern Ireland should just shut up and take it and when push comes to shove, will stay with the UK as it will obviously be better for them.

5. Believe they are shedding the oppressive yolk of the EU and thus will be better off once they aren't be held down by them.

They truly are in a world of their own.