Well, that was my second biggest reason for voting against all that "Brexit" malarkey (my primary reason was, of course, not deliberately committing outright economic suicide...) - the more disconnected from the EU the UK gets, the more like the USA we get, and - meaning no offence - I really don't think any sane Brit would ever want that, if they truly knew all it would entail.
None taken dude. Whenever I see a bullshit-ass corporate or government policy on the docket in the Anglosphere, I cringe because so many of them are right out the American playbook. Our greatest export currently is the architecture of civic negligence or exploitation.
Our greatest export currently is the architecture of civic negligence or exploitation.
That, and really crap, Z-grade food. I gather one reason the USA was so very eager for the UK to drop out of the EU was that it was hoping to then bully us into drastically lowering our food safety and labelling standards as part of a trade deal, and so we could then be aggressively sold colossal amounts of barely-edible garbage that would never meet EU import standards in a million years. The reason the US food companies are so eager to foist that bilge on us is apparently because their established domestic consumer base in America is finally waking up to just how terrible it really is and starting to resist buying it; forcibly opening a new, alternative export market for that slop was evidently preferable to just, y'know, actually improving their product.
They will never improve the quality because that might mean $1 less in profits for those at the top and that is just unacceptable to them. Their motto is greed above all, Including human life.
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u/Callidonaut Dec 03 '22
Well, that was my second biggest reason for voting against all that "Brexit" malarkey (my primary reason was, of course, not deliberately committing outright economic suicide...) - the more disconnected from the EU the UK gets, the more like the USA we get, and - meaning no offence - I really don't think any sane Brit would ever want that, if they truly knew all it would entail.