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All because people think 3.5% of the population (immigrants) is 20% of the population. No one - no matter what they may claim today - voted for this. At the time they were saying "we'll get access to the single market because we're special".

I'm completely lost and hopeless. We've torn up everything that's good because it's difficult, and we're exchanging it for everything that's bad, and will be a thousand times more difficult.

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I don't understand how we got here. I understand that the media picked up a massive campaign to leave, because the various super-rich owners of the popular press decided Brexit was the thing to support. I understand that there were a lot of lies told and that people believed enough of those told by the Leave side that they decided to vote that way.

I don't understand how a slender majority in favour of leaving ended up with a government of people who are supposed to look out for our best interests going full-on for just about the worst possible outcome.

The same way a slender minority forced just about the worst possible President on the American people.

As with Brexit so with Trump, the one side only won because the alternative was only barely, if at all, better.

The left is in disarray, the only threats to May are from the further right in her party and outside (mainly UKIP). Since they're the only threats they're the only groups worth appeasing to maintain her job.

Hopefully this time everyone will remember how difficult bad things are.

If we remember anything from history it should be that we don't remember. :(

Where did your 3.5% come from?

[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-born_population_of_the...)

I made a mistake, it's 3.6%

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