• Synapse@lemmy.world
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        The continent is full of idiots too. Their are no reasons for us to feel superior about this on this side of the pond.

      • wewbull@feddit.uk
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        France, Germany and Italy are giving it a good go too. I think our position on Ukraine has made the UK a lot of friends in Europe. That and voting out the Tories.

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      Switzerland and Liechtenstein are also not member states, and Estonia’s islands are not shown.

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        Scotland has islands on this map, but in a really weird way: all of the five biggest ones are missing, and I’m 95% sure that one of the two depicted is actually a peninsula that the map has chopped off from the mainland

        Alternatively we can just assume Norway took the islands back

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        They bothered to remove the non-EU Balkan states and Norway, but filled up Switzerland. This map is just terrible.

      • neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works
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        Right, like the UK is a sibling that you hated growing up, but as adults it’s not so bad and you know you’re going to be friends again once they go through their binge drinking phase.

      • Synapse@lemmy.world
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        Interesting. Are those poll results sampled amongst the general population, or something more specific like from the parliament ?

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        Still too close. The mistake of Brexit was taking such an important decision based on a slim majority, you need at least an absolute majority, 66%.

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          I would put it more that there should have been an agreement on what Brexit would be pursued. The pro-Brexit camp promoted all forms of Brexit while there wasn’t a good idea on how Brexit would be implemented.

          The UK still hasn’t solved the trilemma.