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| Memo to Michael Bloomberg: here’s the simple reason Britain voted for Brexit | Memo to Michael Bloomberg: here’s the simple reason Britain voted for Brexit |
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| Michael Bloomberg claims he doesn’t understand “why a country that was doing so well wanted to ruin it” (Brexit is worst ever decision, says Bloomberg, 25 October). It’s true, he doesn’t understand. Lots of people in this country aren’t doing so well, and that’s why a majority voted for change. To have voted to remain in the EU would have been a vote for more of the same. For large areas of the UK “the same” would be to continue the decades, since Margaret Thatcher, of industrial decline, underinvestment, lowered expectations and financial insecurity – the very things that remainers now forecast as results of Brexit. All those things have been happening for years to large swathes of the population, but perhaps not near to those doing well from the status quo. The wake-up call for remainers is that decline, underinvestment, lower expectations and insecurity seem to be heading their way. That’s why they are concerned. They never were before.Phil HarrisonWhitehaven, Cumbria | Michael Bloomberg claims he doesn’t understand “why a country that was doing so well wanted to ruin it” (Brexit is worst ever decision, says Bloomberg, 25 October). It’s true, he doesn’t understand. Lots of people in this country aren’t doing so well, and that’s why a majority voted for change. To have voted to remain in the EU would have been a vote for more of the same. For large areas of the UK “the same” would be to continue the decades, since Margaret Thatcher, of industrial decline, underinvestment, lowered expectations and financial insecurity – the very things that remainers now forecast as results of Brexit. All those things have been happening for years to large swathes of the population, but perhaps not near to those doing well from the status quo. The wake-up call for remainers is that decline, underinvestment, lower expectations and insecurity seem to be heading their way. That’s why they are concerned. They never were before.Phil HarrisonWhitehaven, Cumbria |
| • I agree with Bloomberg that Brexit and the election of Trump are two most extraordinarily stupid decisions that nations could have made. | • I agree with Bloomberg that Brexit and the election of Trump are two most extraordinarily stupid decisions that nations could have made. |
| I do not have his financial acumen but believe both decisions are due to the same reason: the elites of both countries ignored the interests and concerns of their working-class constituencies, who were thus easily deceived by mendacious politicians. | I do not have his financial acumen but believe both decisions are due to the same reason: the elites of both countries ignored the interests and concerns of their working-class constituencies, who were thus easily deceived by mendacious politicians. |
| It can only be hoped that both countries can be saved from the terrible consequences of those decisions before it is too late.Anthony GarrettFalkland, Fife | It can only be hoped that both countries can be saved from the terrible consequences of those decisions before it is too late.Anthony GarrettFalkland, Fife |
| • How nice to be lectured by a member of the super-rich elite about our “stupid” choice to leave the EU, and how nice to see it as the Guardian’s leading front-page news item.Chris HughesLeicester | • How nice to be lectured by a member of the super-rich elite about our “stupid” choice to leave the EU, and how nice to see it as the Guardian’s leading front-page news item.Chris HughesLeicester |
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