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This is not true. Brexit is good for the UK and the EU. Now finally clowns like Farage will be exposed for their 'rebel for good' fake ideals. The British public will either accept it's own sentence following decades of 'the bad bureaucrats in Brussels' fake news or come to realize that cooperation at both economical and political on large scale is the way to move forward.

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Brexit isn't about Farage. As you say, he is a clown, a distraction, and a totem for the anger of middle-class metropolitans.

Brexit was about the working-class of the UK who voted to leave the EU, and their reasons for doing that.

Again, not true. Voting percentage was - 1. Majority leave in poor areas 2. Majority leave in the older population. 3. London voted remain. Reasons? We all know the reasons, and I'm not even going to go into the superiority complex that these people have.

> "We all know the reasons"

Do we? Are you getting your information from the mainstream media? Are you aware of how much they distort the facts to suit their own narratives? Why do you think Brexit would be any different?

Does it matter? Britain wants to leave the EU. I know what the EU represents and what it doesn't. That's enough.

You're saying this as if there's an unified consensus within Britain. A bit more than half of Britain wanted to leave, and a bit less than half of Britain wanted to remain. They'll still honor the democratic process and do what the general population chose to do, but it's an overstatement to say that Britain wants to leave when it's rather that Britain was highly undecided and has(had?) a mild preference towards leaving.

It matters. Immigrants have been made to feel unwelcome from the way the press have handled their coverage. Their coverage has also stifled debate by unnecessarily polarising people against each other. The damage they've done and continue to do to the UK, both during Brexit and in other matters, is pretty clear.

Aside from that, what does the EU mean to you?

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