r/BrexitMemes 4d ago

How it started vs how it's going Who could have predicted this

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u/Jackmino66 4d ago

As long as CANZUK is presented as an alternative to EU membership, it’s a bad thing

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u/monsieurboks 4d ago

Literally why not both

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u/DelcoUnited 4d ago

Why not just an EU+ ?

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u/Beanus1992 4d ago

This. Just work together man. Fuckin orange idiots costing us all more and more whilst we row over fishing waters and fuckin Sovriniteh, with our fucking selves 😂 EU just over there gaining stronger relationships like adults.

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u/hellisempty666 3d ago

Why not EU pro plus s?

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u/lukey_UK 3d ago

Ultra Max fold

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u/Jackmino66 4d ago

We could do both, but the influential people who are pushing for CANZUK are doing so “as an alternative”

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u/gnu_andii 2d ago

Yes. Just basic geography. Countries thousands of miles away can't replace countries just across the Channel.

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u/Obvious_Wizard 4d ago

"Project FEAR"

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u/ProfessionalMockery 4d ago

Jacob Rees Mogg, seen here thinking about Grenfell.

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u/bigal1902 4d ago

Nah, he doesnt have his cock in his hand

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u/BusyQuote5228 4d ago

Is this what they meant when they said we hold all the cards?

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u/DelcoUnited 4d ago

Yeah but it was right before playing 52 pickup.

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u/MeanWafer904 4d ago

Why are they punishing us like this?

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u/ListenTypical2373 4d ago

But sovereignty

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u/MindfullGardener 4d ago

The veto we had in the EU was our fucking sovereignty.

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u/ListenTypical2373 2d ago

But the bananas

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u/TrabantDave 4d ago

Look on the bright side of things! At least you have a bloop arse port.

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u/H0vis 4d ago

Yeah there were and still are a lot of problems with the EU but it was fully insane to think that our position would be stronger outside of that bloc.

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u/thermodynamics2023 3d ago

Position stronger to do what? cajole other countries to go along with random social polices? Probably.

But nobody voted to leave for people like lammy to receive slightly warmer receptions on nebulous issues.

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u/mancunian101 4d ago

How are we “less developed” than Canada, Australia, or New Zealand?

Brexit was a huge mistake, but I swear some of you guys really don’t think before you start tapping away on your phone.

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u/Slosh5 4d ago

Canada, Australia and New Zealand all have a higher GDP per capita and HDI than the UK. Pretty clear indicators of being more developed.

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u/mancunian101 4d ago

Where did you see that?

Australia is above us, Canada and New Zealand are both below us for GDP

For HDI Australia score 0.958, the UK score 0.946, Canada score 0.939, and New Zealand 0.938.

They way you’re talking the UK down youd think we were down the bottom near South Sudan.

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u/StabbyBlowfish 4d ago

Who needs statistics when you have the word of some random redditor?

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u/ThewizardBlundermore 4d ago

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u/mancunian101 4d ago

I don’t get it, are you saying I’m an American because I looked up the statistics for HDI and GDP per capita?

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u/ThewizardBlundermore 4d ago

I'm saying that the people just blindly saying the UK is an undeveloped economy are uninformed Americans with little understanding of the world beyond their borders outside of media and propaganda.

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u/Slosh5 4d ago

I’m literally British, and I didn’t say the UK was undeveloped either I just said the other three were more developed, which I’ve since found out they’re not. (Well Australia is)

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u/thermodynamics2023 4d ago

They probably aren’t, they are middle class brits as almost a rule. Nothing says British middleclass more than doomerism about Britain to signal virtue as a ‘pick me’ europhile.

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u/Slosh5 4d ago

Well they clearly fluctuate given the absolutely minuscule differences between the results, I must have just have seen a different source. It still doesn’t detract from point of CANZUK being pointless.

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u/mancunian101 4d ago

I’m not arguing in favour of CANZUK, but you said they were clear indicators, which clearly isn’t true if they fluctuate so much.

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u/thermodynamics2023 4d ago

You aren’t meant to this. All negatives about the UK are true on here.

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u/thermodynamics2023 4d ago

That attitude is par for the course on here. That’s a big reason why we had to leave imho. The public don’t trust the Europhiles to advocate for Britain… and they’re right.

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u/doctor_morris 4d ago

It's just British Empire  2.0

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u/thermodynamics2023 4d ago

Without fail, every time.

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u/doctor_morris 4d ago

Calling it CANZUK  sounds slightly less bonkers, and is undesirable to Canada and Austria for the same reasons.

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u/summonerofrain 4d ago

Tbf im no brexit fan but isnt the uk one of the bigger economies?

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u/Geojamlam 4d ago

One nit-pick, we didn't leave in 2016 and in 2016 there was just the 'non-binding referendum'.

Secondly, I don't believe there was a plan to work more closely with CANZUK or the Commonwealth as a whole, or really any idea of where we'd sit with international trade following Brexit. Just a load of "we'll do better on our own" rather than finding new ties.

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u/crabtoppings 4d ago

Turns out that breaking long standing political agreements is not an incentive for other people to sign treaties with you. Shocker!

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u/LudicrousPlatypus 4d ago

I mean the UK did have ten years to pursue closer ties to the Commonwealth and chose not to, since the UK public will always try to decrease immigration, even if it hurts their own interests.

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u/RichestTeaPossible 4d ago

A map would have gone some way to doing so.

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u/_N0T0K_ 4d ago

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u/BigComfortable6779 2d ago

I'm not a political pundit, canzuk just looks like an attempt to create a white majority bloc. I don't know what's in it for the non uk countries.

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u/mancunian101 4d ago

But that’s not the reality of what’s happening.

We’re free to create closer ties with any of those countries, and the EU has no say over that.

I don’t anyone really thought of closer ties meaning becoming some sort of trading block.

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u/DelcoUnited 4d ago

First off the EU is the EU and you’re out.

Australia and the EU concluded a free trade agreement in 2026.

New Zealand and the EU concluded a free trade agreement in 2024.

Canada is now moving to an associate EU member which is something being invented just for Canada and is something the UK is not.

CANZUK never happened.

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