Brits Scramble to Google “What is the EU?” Hours After Voting to Leave It

[Night Watchman]

Source: Fortune Magazine

by Jeff John Roberts
June 24, 2016, 12:39 PM EDT

A bit late, don’t you think? A report from Google shows the British are madly searching to figure out what the European Union is.

According to Google, “What is the EU?” is the second most searched term about the EU since the announcement of the historic Brexit referendum this morning. Oh, and in the hours prior to the vote, Google says one of the top questions was “What is Brexit?”

These and other findings can be found in a report about the EU referendum posted on Google Trends.



Read more: http://fortune.com/2016/06/24/brexit-google-trends/

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The above-mentioned report is here.

The question I have is: How did Donald Trump sneak so many of his supporters into the UK?

[phazed0]

1. Good for them....

At least when they vote shit actually happens.

[chapdrum]

4. Good point you make, and

just can't help but notice, they counted the votes (as far as we know) with efficiency and speed. No waiting for results to come in from x location(s).

So unlike the U.S.

[NWCorona]

6. Are they still counting votes in Cali

[ck4829]

2. Dude, where's my supranational union?

[chapdrum]

3. Can't believe this isn't from "The Onion."

[jakeXT]

5. Americans Confused By System Of Government In Which Leader Would Resign After Making Terrible Decisi

WASHINGTON—In the wake of Prime Minister David Cameron’s announcement that he would leave office following the United Kingdom’s vote to exit the European Union, tens of millions of Americans expressed their confusion to reporters Friday about a system of government in which a leader would resign after making a terrible decision. “Wait, so he made a really awful choice with far-reaching negative consequences and now he’s just stepping down to let someone else take over? What?” said Colorado Springs, CO resident Evan Austin, echoing the sentiments of citizens across the United States who were left struggling to understand why a democratically elected head of government would relinquish control simply because they had been shown to have made a spectacularly bad judgment call. “So he jeopardized the future of his country, and instead of spending the next several years remaining in power while trying to paper over his mistakes, he’s just gone? Where’s the part where he denies any wrongdoing or tries to blame somebody else? This is absolutely crazy.” The American public noted, however, that they completely understood the part where voters who had made a demonstrably terrible decision continued to double down on it

http://www.theonion.com/article/americans-confused-system-government-which-leader--53156

[Dorian Gray]

7. Ha ha

Just saw that on my fb feed.

It's funny but it's true!

Or it's funny bc it's true!

[treestar]

13. so funny

[Cresent City Kid]

8. Ours is coming in November

They'll be asking "who are these Electoral College elites?"

[LostOne4Ever]

9. LOCKING THREAD AS NOT LATE BREAKING NEWS OF NATIONAL INTEREST (RETRACTED)

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[LostOne4Ever]

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[rockfordfile]

11. Should always do some research

Especially when racist and far right idiots push anything that deem this will be good for you.

[Odin2005]

12. To be honest, this is probably just curious kids googling it.

[treestar]

14. I agree

How could anyone of voting age be dumb enough not to know the UK was in the EU?