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Inside, as well as hailing the referendum as 'the day the quiet people stood up and roared' and rubbishing the 'disaster' that was project fear, it also explores what Brexit means for its readers: the pound is worth less which means holidays cost more, Britons will lose the right to work, buy holiday homes, travel and study without restrictions in the EU and pensions have lost value. All in all, some things to worry its readers even if they share the paper's politics.
And in the comments online underneath the story, many of those readers seen dumbfounded, shocked and ever so slightly incredulous:
Full story: http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/the-mail-has-explained-what-brexit-means-and-its-readers-seem-shocked--Z1772TI4aNW
The Mail's original story from 24 June is here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3659137/So-does-mean-Brexit-affect-holiday-money-mortgages-passports-health-cover.html
For once, it is worth reading the comments ...
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)and Britain are in a race for the bottom. Britain voted to leave the Union, but America is holding the Trump card. GOTV.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)I has a sad.
orwell
(7,775 posts)God save the Queen!
tblue37
(65,487 posts)tblue37
(65,487 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)The Leave camp lied through their teeth, and the Remain camp seems to have responded with high-pitched shrieking.
Denzil_DC
(7,257 posts)they were using their experience of "winning" the Scottish referendum as a model for the Remain campaign.
During that referendum, they waged what major figures in the anti-independence campaign themselves called Project Fear: grave warning after grave warning about the consequences of leaving the UK, while the Yes campaign were expected (in stark contrast to the Leave campaign in the EU referendum) to have very concrete, very detailed answers to questions about every eventuality that couldn't possibly be resolved until the negotiations after the referendum had been run.
What they didn't allow for was that during the Scottish referendum, they had print and broadcast media which, with the exception of only one Scottish Sunday newspaper, were vehemently opposed to Scotland going it alone. That obviously wasn't an advantage they enjoyed this time.
One pundit up here, early on in the EU referendum, despairing of the tone, called the campaigns on both sides Project We're All Going To Die. There was hype on both sides, but it seems like Remain was a lot closer to promoting the truth at the moment.
Dworkin
(164 posts)Hi,
I've done some reading on this subject and it seems that the BOE head, Mark Carney, is preparing for a longer term downturn in the UK economy.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/30/interest-rate-cut-likely-brexit-bank-of-england-mark-carney
His emergency plan: 0% interest rates and printing money, is not without risks, but who knows what will happen? The Tories (Osborne and May) are talking of dropping efforts to balance the books and so our £1.7 trillion national debt will continue to rise. With a downgrade of Britain's credit rating from the three biggest agencies we should be prepared for higher interest payments on this massive debt, thus increasing the deficit and national debt even more.
It is hard to see an upside in this situation, apart from the fact that the Tories own it. However, this will come as little comfort to those 'precariat' folks who have suffered so much under them already.
D.
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greatauntoftriplets
(175,749 posts)smh.