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kpete

(71,901 posts)
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 01:21 PM Feb 2020

Small town votes for terrible thing. Terrible thing passes and immediately does harm to small town.

The UK’s vote for Brexit is so very much like the rust and farm belts voting for Trump.




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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Small town votes for terrible thing. Terrible thing passes and immediately does harm to small town. (Original Post) kpete Feb 2020 OP
A case of instant karma? 2naSalit Feb 2020 #1
Think they'll put two and two together or just double down on their smirkymonkey Feb 2020 #2
Double down. Silver1 Feb 2020 #5
W/O a doubt they'll fouble down. They've got blame to dole out JDC Feb 2020 #18
And then they'll be on the dole? keithbvadu2 Feb 2020 #25
That rather depends? Myrddin Feb 2020 #31
Is this the beginning? Wellstone ruled Feb 2020 #3
"I hate my neighbors so much, I'm shooting myself in the head! That'll show em!" struggle4progress Feb 2020 #4
Farmers voted for Hitler safeinOhio Feb 2020 #6
Not so fast... mwooldri Feb 2020 #7
Or both in combination. The company may have been force to make cutbacks... JHB Feb 2020 #8
"I didn't think leopards would eat MY face." DavidDvorkin Feb 2020 #9
Yup, dying of whiteness. SunSeeker Feb 2020 #10
They took our jobs! IronLionZion Feb 2020 #11
Terk R Jerbs!!! mr_lebowski Feb 2020 #26
Deplorables should try the South Park solution and see if it works IronLionZion Feb 2020 #27
And I'm sure they support Trump in the American election world wide wally Feb 2020 #12
Not all Brexiters are Trump fans,... Myrddin Feb 2020 #30
so is this small town's strongest local radio stations RW and getting calls from russian's certainot Feb 2020 #13
The parallels between Brexit and the election of Trump are striking. People voting against their own Nitram Feb 2020 #14
It's happening all around the world... Wounded Bear Feb 2020 #19
It is interesting how movements cycle like throughout history. Nitram Feb 2020 #28
And in the courts, "harm" as a basis of restitution is hard to prove. So small towns tend to ancianita Feb 2020 #15
thoughts and prayers i guess 0rganism Feb 2020 #16
Both short-sighted and very narrow vision. MFGsunny Feb 2020 #17
Minnesota did not vote for trump. the_sly_pig Feb 2020 #20
He's been campaigning there. It's too close for comfort IronLionZion Feb 2020 #24
The UK -- soon reduced to mere England -- is going to decline economically for the foreseeable future MrModerate Feb 2020 #21
I think so too. Delphinus Feb 2020 #23
Me too.. then NIreland might follow... uriel1972 Feb 2020 #29
Betting they have no clue of their role in the demise. nt live love laugh Feb 2020 #22

Silver1

(721 posts)
5. Double down.
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 01:37 PM
Feb 2020

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)
18. W/O a doubt they'll fouble down. They've got blame to dole out
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 03:46 PM
Feb 2020

And it is not going to be via self reflection.

Myrddin

(327 posts)
31. That rather depends?
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 03:36 AM
Feb 2020

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)
3. Is this the beginning?
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 01:27 PM
Feb 2020

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.

mwooldri

(10,291 posts)
7. Not so fast...
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 01:51 PM
Feb 2020

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)
8. Or both in combination. The company may have been force to make cutbacks...
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 02:00 PM
Feb 2020

...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.

Myrddin

(327 posts)
30. Not all Brexiters are Trump fans,...
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 03:10 AM
Feb 2020

...but from my experience, all British Trump-fans are 'foaming-at-the-mouth' Brexiters.

 

certainot

(9,090 posts)
13. so is this small town's strongest local radio stations RW and getting calls from russian's
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 03:09 PM
Feb 2020

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)
14. The parallels between Brexit and the election of Trump are striking. People voting against their own
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 03:30 PM
Feb 2020

best interests based on racism, fake news, and general stupidity.

Wounded Bear

(58,440 posts)
19. It's happening all around the world...
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 03:52 PM
Feb 2020

Trump is heading to India to boost Modi's lurch toward fascism. There, it's not "white power" it's Hindu power.

ancianita

(35,813 posts)
15. And in the courts, "harm" as a basis of restitution is hard to prove. So small towns tend to
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 03:31 PM
Feb 2020

push forward, dragging along their sunk cost fallacy like a gimp friend.



MFGsunny

(2,356 posts)
17. Both short-sighted and very narrow vision.
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 03:37 PM
Feb 2020

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?"

 

MrModerate

(9,753 posts)
21. The UK -- soon reduced to mere England -- is going to decline economically for the foreseeable future
Sat Feb 22, 2020, 04:15 PM
Feb 2020

uriel1972

(4,261 posts)
29. Me too.. then NIreland might follow...
Sun Feb 23, 2020, 12:41 AM
Feb 2020

don't know the situation in Wales though. Anyone who knows that feel free to chime in

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