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The UKs vote for Brexit is so very much like the rust and farm belts voting for Trump.
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Barrow - for the 1st time in over 30 years - voted for Boris Johnson & the Conservatives in order to get Brexit done at the last election.
Today McBride closes its factory there in order to transfer production to the EU in order to survive Brexit.
https://www.in-cumbria.com/news/18250693.mcbride-confirms-barrow-factory-closure-cost-106-jobs/
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2naSalit
(86,061 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)ignorance and racism?
Silver1
(721 posts)They'll never admit any regrets. They'll wallow in the glory of the Brexit martyrs club - by day. At night some pesky thoughts will be jabbing at them and they won't sleep so well at all.
JDC
(10,084 posts)And it is not going to be via self reflection.
keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)And then they'll be on the dole?
Myrddin
(327 posts)My own personal prediction, for the reaction further down the road, is based on UK circa 1981.
In '79 Thatcher won the General Election by a landslide, the largest swing to the Tories since WWII. Two years later, when Thatcherism was in full swing, and her utopian destruction of the industrial heartlands was being realised, the Tory voter was a rare animal indeed.
In the pubs in those industrial heartlands, known, Tory, voters were defiantly lying that they voted for Labour, or were head down into their pints staying silent. Anyone brave enough to admit differently was in serious, occasionally violent, trouble.
UK 2022, former Brexiters will be denying the role they played?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Just the start of reality and the demise of the UK. Scotland has rumblings of leaving the UK knowing they are about to get a BJ from the Conservative Brit Government.
struggle4progress
(118,041 posts)safeinOhio
(32,531 posts)and were the first ones sent to the Russian Front.
mwooldri
(10,291 posts)While it is true that the factory will shut down and production continue on at the company's factories in France and Luxembourg, the other problem the company is experiencing is a weaker demand for its product: washing powder. People want to buy washing liquid and these "pods" not the "old fashioned" powder. Thus there is weaker demand for the product and as such a factory has to close.
So either Brexit or weak demand for product caused factory closure. Take your pick...
JHB
(37,132 posts)...due to weakening sales, but they still had to decide where to cut back. Trade complications and uncertainties from Brexit would have affected that decision-making, and not in the McBride factory's favor.
DavidDvorkin
(19,406 posts)SunSeeker
(51,377 posts)IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Their solution to the 'immigrants from the future' problem is freaking classic ...
IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)world wide wally
(21,719 posts)Myrddin
(327 posts)...but from my experience, all British Trump-fans are 'foaming-at-the-mouth' Brexiters.
certainot
(9,090 posts)with british accents, with no alternative talk?
brazil's bolsanaro thanks the 'brazillian limbaugh' for his 'win' and the guy broadcasts from virginia!
that question has to be asked over and over
Nitram
(22,671 posts)best interests based on racism, fake news, and general stupidity.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)Trump is heading to India to boost Modi's lurch toward fascism. There, it's not "white power" it's Hindu power.
Nitram
(22,671 posts)ancianita
(35,813 posts)push forward, dragging along their sunk cost fallacy like a gimp friend.
0rganism
(23,856 posts)what else remains? so it goes
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)SAD .... so very sad some people can't see past their nose and willfully, wantonly and recklessly vote against their own best interest.
Reminders of "What's the Matter with Kansas?"
the_sly_pig
(740 posts)Nor Raygun when Everyone else did.
IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)MrModerate
(9,753 posts)Delphinus
(11,808 posts)Waiting for Scotland and their vote on independence.
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)don't know the situation in Wales though. Anyone who knows that feel free to chime in