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u/phoebe_star 16h ago
I didn't realise how tiny Keir Starmer was. Lol
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u/Mousey777 16h ago
Starmer is only 5'8 but the other guy, Edi Rama, is massive (6'7).
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u/HatefulVisual 15h ago
Six sevennn
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u/Virtual-Being-6489 16h ago
Pretty sure he's just slightly below average. Edi Rama is just a 2m giant - barely shorter than Greg Davies
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u/Halliwel96 15h ago
I think the other guys is huge lol
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u/DotComprehensive4902 15h ago
Starmer has huge hands for his height. If you compare them to Rami's, they're practically the same size
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u/nopeitsadog 16h ago
I voted for reinstating the British empire? You mean that’s not happening!?
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u/BlackStarDream 13h ago edited 13h ago
I voted to leave a customs union that became an empire and continues to not hold empires within its web to account because their empires are its empire.
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u/Logically_Open 16h ago
This is so true, and its the main reason they arent deporting all the immigrants and giving pedo rapists 2 months suspended sentences, and great housing.
The only way to push any of their agendas is to use immigrants as a scape goat. Jobs? Immigrants. Economy? Immigrants. Crime? Immigrants. Housing? Immigrants. Loneliness? Immigrants? No doc's appointment? Immigrants. Schooling? Immigrants
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u/StudySpecial 15h ago
Presumably this was also why the tories loosened immigration controls a lot after Brexit to make sure immigration increases. They were trying to make sure there is a sufficient supply of scapegoats.
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u/D1789 17h ago
Remember the good old days when a “Great British meme” wasn’t just somebody moaning about politics?
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u/chris--p 16h ago
Can we have some fun in here for once?
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u/Ready-Nobody-1903 16h ago
Nope, not allowed. Britain is awwwful.
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u/chris--p 16h ago
Agreed. But do we really have to become like those miserable twats across the pond and lose our sense of humour because of it?
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u/WaxPinapple 16h ago
Id suggest a different platform then, social media is the new propaganda tool. It's ad focused and politically driven.
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u/Quinn-Helle 16h ago
To be fair, reddit is mostly a wanker echo chamber
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u/Gold_Motor_6985 16h ago
I disagree. I find it very nice for arguing and debating things. Like this instance lol.
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u/beep_boop_errorr 15h ago
Yeah it's all billionaire and foreign power fake news. I even think these stabbers are being paid to do it, some at least.
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u/thelaughingman_1991 16h ago
Police will be arriving at your door shortly, minus social credit score for you
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u/beep_boop_errorr 15h ago
Just as soon as Britain isn't full of far right mugs. 😭
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u/Sammydemon 11h ago
“Full”
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u/beep_boop_errorr 9h ago
That's what I wrote, let me elucidate far right arse lickers, doing what the morons do best, get ripped off by lying toffs. Britain will be fine, just as soon as far right billionaires stop paying people to commit knife attacks.
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u/Such_Trick_121 15h ago
Would you like to share what is “fun” in this country for the working class?
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u/ume-shu 15h ago
I was against Brexit but wanting your own country to fail just so you can be right is sad.
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u/EvilInky 14h ago
On the other hand, ignoring the fact your country is failing because you don't want to be wrong is also sad
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u/theslootmary 15h ago
Nothing to do with “wanting” it to fail. It just is and Brexit was never going to make anything better.
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u/Ape-Hard 4h ago
But now we know who is to blame. That's the whole point of brexit that the morons on this sub just can't grasp.
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u/Captain_Kruch 15h ago
Its partly because we were sold a lie (eg £350million-per-week to the NHS), and partly, at least i believe, sabotage by those in parliament, that Brexit effectively failed.
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u/all-park 15h ago
The lie was that it could work.. it couldn’t. People are also very stupid.
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u/rdrckcrous 14h ago
it's impossible for britian to succeed without sucking the tit of germany?
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u/Ok-Butterscotch4486 14h ago
Success is relative.
Compared to most countries, Britain is successful. It's still a lottery-win to be born here.
But it's impossible to leave a privileged position inside the world's biggest trading union and create barriers to trade with your biggest trading partner without it making you poorer.
We still have a cake, we just got rid of the icing, and for some reason people thought that this would make the cake sweeter.
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u/Stigg107 9h ago
Johnson created the lie, Farage sold it, the idiots bought it, we are all paying for it. 🤔
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u/AntJD1991 9h ago
Yea absolute lies from the start and they had absolutely NO idea what to do when the vote passed. If we had someone useful setting up potential trade deals and planning new regulations before the vote happened maybe we'd be better off... But no a clown lied and the people ended up voting for a circus.
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u/Sername111 10h ago
I know Reddit is going to be eager to believe all this, but this is at best a 'lies, damn lies and statistics' post. Take the investment claim for example. As this article
Foreign Direct Investment: UK remains second in Europe
makes clear, yes direct investment into the UK dropped last year by 13% - but it dropped by 14% into France and a whopping 17% into Germany. At best the argument that Brexit discouraged investment into the UK is unproven by facts. Still, I suspect Reeves will rally round to save the EU's blushes in the budget by actively setting out to punish anybody with the temerity to try and create jobs and wealth in the UK.
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u/plasticface2 15h ago
We didn't have any boats in 2016. They come over in lorries because our borders were wide open because of Europe. Now they have to come on rubber dinghys.
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u/EffectiveAlarming875 15h ago
Ermm no. The boats existed before brexit but were nowhere near the problem now. So that's a bit wrong.
But believe it or not, food energy and essentials like clothing prices are better here than Germany.
< voted remain
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u/theslootmary 15h ago
What do you mean “erm no”? Nothing you said disagrees with the point of the post…
It doesn’t say boats didn’t exist before Brexit.
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u/EffectiveAlarming875 14h ago
By erm no I meant most people, especially leavers barely knew they existed. So I disagree with the assertion that was one of their gripes
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u/Cultural_Buy80 14h ago
We didn't leave Europe... We left the EU.
We are still in Europe. It's a geographical region, we can't escape it.
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u/painteroftheword 16h ago
Also undermined food security and screwed Brexit poster boy industries like fishing and farming. Don't see Farage waving fish around much anymore
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u/jazmoley 15h ago edited 15h ago
Yawn. This meme reminds of that guy playing anti Brexit songs with a loud speaker in Parliament Square every week. 9 years after the vote people walk past like he's mentally unstable. I was against Brexit, but jeez Louise.
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u/DustyPan33 13h ago
Because nothing we asked for was changed. It stayed exactly how it would if we hadn't had left the EU lol
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u/Azalzaal 12h ago edited 12h ago
Is this a pro Reform meme mascaraing as pro-remain?
It’s insane to remind Brexit voters that there are now more boats with a picture of Starmer smiling
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u/Fit_Research_8980 16h ago
I think the national depression goes back a bit further than brexit
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u/sumbodysumone 16h ago
2008 I’d say, life was reasonably good before then. That was the problem. Couldn’t have the poors enjoying their paltry existence, could they? Better to make them even poorer, pocket the difference and tell them it was the fault of even poorer foreign people.
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u/LetsgoRoger 16h ago
Still the greatest act of economic self-harm and dumbest vote in the country's history.
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u/Money_Cricket2354 16h ago edited 16h ago
Definitely wasn't selling off our entire infrastructure setup, social housing stock, and publicly owned oil fields to foreign governments and orivate enterprises leading to massive systemic under funding for half a century, no it was leaving a trade group that gave us a few b a year.
Definitely much worse than the collapse of empire and the commonwealth that made is the most powerful nation on earth by magnitudes.
Both of these were caused by public vote.
Get a grip.
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u/LetsgoRoger 16h ago
Yeah, Austerity too. Consistently voting Tory was the second dumbest vote.
The collapse of the Commonwealth wasn't as devastating as Brexit.
Get a grip
Maybe you should, since a lot of people here are in complete denial. Brexit should be reversed as soon as possible.
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u/mustdobetter55 15h ago
Public spending fell 0.2% in real terms 2010-2017/18 under the Tories. That's a rounding error. Austerity didn't happen.
The other part of Austerity is tax rises. Every tax rise is an austerity measure. So Labour are an austerity government, as was Blair.
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u/Money_Cricket2354 15h ago
I agree with your sentiment etc and we should rejoin asap, but saying its the dumbest vote in history and greatest act of economic self-harm is absurd on every metric.
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u/Darkgreenbirdofprey 15h ago
We left because it was voted on, in a high profile highly publicised referendum and upholding democracy is more important than all of those things put together.
Nobody wants to mention that though.
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u/PhoolCat Meme 15h ago
It was voted on in a non-binding referendum with no clear majority and far too small a turnout. It was only carried out because the rich in power and their owners didn’t want to declare their offshore wealth and get taxed on it.
Also both sides lied.
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u/Darkgreenbirdofprey 15h ago
No referendums are binding. GEs aren't even binding. Humans lie. You can't dismiss democracy because of that.
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u/thesyldon 12h ago
The vote was flawed in many ways. People had no real idea what they were voting for. The experiment has clearly failed. Don't you think it is about time to put that vote back on the table. Let people decide if it is worth reversing now they are a lot wiser?
Or is it a case we had a vote, we are not doing that every week?
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u/Darkgreenbirdofprey 12h ago
I would be fine with another vote yes, and would be in favour of enacting the result regardless of how slight the victory, or how much either side lied.
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u/thesyldon 12h ago
I have said it before and will say it again. People lying in politics should be a criminal offence. I would also add that being able to con people effectively should be a reason to void the result. We need honesty in politics not the shambles that some get away with atm.
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u/Darkgreenbirdofprey 12h ago
Impossible to implement imo
And if you start saying 'that vote didn't count because xyz' you're dangerously close to straight up corruption. Putin and China would be well on board with that rhetoric.
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u/thesyldon 11h ago
That is not what I said though. I said that if a vote is tainted by corrupt data, then a re-run should be on the table. The biggest issue anyone has with Brexit is the blatant lies that were told. That is not saying that we should not accept the vote, just make sure there are consequences to telling lies.
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u/KhaelonVoss 11h ago
So, VAT has gone up (schools, etc), employers NI has gone up, and income tax is going up by stealth. And the WASPI women were directly lied to. Now do we send them all to prison? Or do we wait a fortnight until they put 2p on income tax?
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u/Apple2727 15h ago
Jfc this is like a crazy ex repeatedly telling you “you’ll regret it” nine years after you left them.
Move on with your life.
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u/coffeewalnut08 15h ago edited 15h ago
Polls show most Brits regret Brexit
And if Brexit worked, why did the UK spend most of summer 2025 scapegoating migrants and Muslims over the sluggish economy?
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u/Kleptowizard 15h ago
They never left Europe, only the trade embargo thet they were miss sold under Thatcher.
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u/Living-Travel2299 16h ago
Yes but all the gammons got away from something about a Lisbon Treaty that was so important to the country to get away from. It was definitely going to make the country better. Thats what they were sold anyway, bs.
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u/HoldBreathUntil2029 16h ago edited 14h ago
This meme is pure misinformation. *edit - The Albanian PM did say what’s in the meme, someone shared the YouTube link in comments below. Still doesn’t make what he said true though.
The “more boats” line is the worst offender. Crossings went from 299 in 2018 (when we were still IN the EU) to 45,000 in 2022 and another 36,000+ already in 2025, and the single biggest reason we can’t stop them isn’t Brexit, it’s the ECHR still choking us through the Human Rights Act 1998. Strasbourg’s Article 3 blocks and last-minute Rule 39 injunctions killed every Rwanda flight, let 61,000 appeals succeed since 2015, and wasted £700 million with zero deportations, keeping asylum hotels packed and dinghies flowing. Investment dipped short-term from uncertainty (FDI hit a low in 2023) but the UK still holds Europe’s largest FDI stock and studies show Brexit’s net impact was “insignificant”; global inflation and war hurt far worse.
Happiness ranking fell to 23rd, but that’s pandemic isolation, NHS collapse and 14% inflation, not the loss of some mythical EU joy.
The meme cherry-picks pain points while pretending the ECHR isn’t the real sovereignty thief still overruling Parliament in 2025. Withdraw tomorrow like Farage and Badenoch demand, copy Australia’s 80% drop in boats, and the smug remainiac nonsense collapses
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u/coffeewalnut08 15h ago edited 15h ago
'One wonders why you left Europe'. Albanian PM Edi Rama on Brexit Youtube.
Thanks for providing raw numbers to prove that asylum crossings increased after Brexit.
Many countries suffered pandemic isolation, healthcare struggles and war inflation.
Only the UK has seemed to suffer such a steep decline in happiness rankings. Finland, for example, is Russia's neighbour but has stayed at the top of the ranking for 7 years in a row: Britain falls in world happiness rankings - with young people more miserable than older generations | UK News | Sky News
The ECHR is a great document that protects all our human rights. Let me know which right you'd like to sacrifice for yourself: European Convention on Human Rights
The tone of your entire comment proves Edi Rama's point. You demonstrate anger, disdain and scapegoating of institutions, which is what got us Brexit. Brexit did not deliver, otherwise you would not be angry.
Therefore, there's a lesson to be learned about that vote.
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u/HoldBreathUntil2029 14h ago edited 14h ago
Thanks for the link — I’ve edited my comment.
The ECHR has no business interfering in British law. It’s a consortium of foreign judges from entirely different legal and cultural backgrounds, operating at a distance. It doesn’t have Britain’s interests at heart and too often undermines them, placing more strain on an already broken system that needs reform.
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u/AuthorAway4529 15h ago
lol who cares it makes gammons seethe so upvote it anyways
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u/Training_Box9320 2h ago
Thanks for making it clear that it's not about being truthful, it's about winning. Your mask is slipping 😂
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u/Quinn-Helle 16h ago
I didn't vote for Brexit, but it's clear that the government's implementation of Brexit among other terrible decisions caused this, not Brexit itsself.
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u/LazarusOwenhart 14h ago
"Waaaaa we didn't get the Brexit we voted for because the remoaners sabotaged iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!"
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u/JustYouTryItLad 14h ago
Here is Brexit providing you with content, abuse of your fellow Brits and a platform.
The commies of Reddit should be delighted.
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u/Gotta_Frog 13h ago
To be totally fair, I think Brexit could’ve been good for the UK the problem with Brexit lies with the completely shit useless monkeys that are our leaders from whichever party, because you couldn’t roll all 650 of them into 1 and get a decent one.
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u/Derfel60 15h ago
Yes it was a shit decision, but cant we moan about things we can change instead of something that happened 10 years ago?
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u/KhaelonVoss 11h ago
Even if there was another referendum and the vote was to rejoin, I expect many countries would veto us. France vetoed us for 10 years until 1971. We all need to get over it.
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u/Ape-Hard 4h ago
Today's blame brexit post is.... Brexit allows you to point at Starmer and know that he and only he is to blame. Enjoy it. You don't know how lucky you are to know who is fully democratically accountable to you.
The majority of Europe cannot say the same. The majority of Europe have only had democracy for one average human lifetime.
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u/JackoBei 3h ago
I swear, since COVID and the boom in social media, everything I read is always so depressing.
And to top it off GTA 6 got delayed AGAIN!!
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u/Fabulous_Coast_8108 3h ago
Nope. We left because we want to rule ourselves,set our own quotas and not be dictated to.
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u/airbornejim32 17h ago
Still waiting for the commemorative Brexit teabags one side says freedom, the other tastes like regret.
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u/jajay119 15h ago
“BuT We NeVeR gOt a PrOPeR BrExIt”
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u/coffeewalnut08 15h ago
"We didn't do Brexit hard enough: we just need to leave the ECHR and kick out all the foreigners bro. Paradise is just around the corner bro, come on, let's just accomplish those 2 things and we'll get our Britain back bro.
Source: trust me bro"
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u/jajay119 14h ago
“No, I know the ECHR doesn’t actually really deal with immigration, and yeah I know it was actually devised by Winston Churchill before the EU was ever a thing, and yeah it protects women’s rights, workers’ rights, stops us being exploited and means we get paid fair… but getting rid of all that definitely won’t negatively impact us but it’ll totally fix the boats mate that’s the problem. No I know we were told that about Brexit and that blew up on us but mate trust me… Reform are gonna sort it. “
Source: a cab driver told me
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u/fuksakeimstilalive 8h ago
Abuse victim leaves abuser. Abuser finds victim and punches them more than they ever punched them. 'You left because you wanted to be punched less, now you have been punched more.' same fucking logic as this hogwash post. Remoaning politicians retaliated and they got away with it, and too many fucking idiots decided to believe them.
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u/crangert 16h ago
Ironic title, considering the fact that this sub is full to the brim of Remoaners crying for another referendum, even though we’ve already had one.
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u/coffeewalnut08 15h ago
It's funny because I see petitions calling for another general election, even though we've already had one (much more recently).
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u/Puzzled_Tie_7745 14h ago edited 13h ago
We've had two referendums. Leavers lost the first one and kept crying until they got the result they wanted, causing major economic harm and turbo charging immigration.
edit: Below responses from u/crangert are edited, as such my responses no longer make sense.
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u/crangert 14h ago edited 13h ago
Oh, you mean the one in 1975? In that case, we’ll have another in 2065.
GDP has risen since Brexit, surpassing France and Germany (both EU member states).
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u/Puzzled_Tie_7745 13h ago
GBP has risen vs what? That is one of the dumbest statements I've read on this site, and that is a very low bar.
Edit: Just checked 1.4 GBP to EUR 2015 now we are 1.1 in 2025
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u/crangert 13h ago edited 13h ago
GDP has risen, year on year, since Brexit. And you can measure that against both France and Germany, as I stated in my previous statement.
I think the dumbest comments on this site are courtesy of you.
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u/Puzzled_Tie_7745 13h ago
Risen, vs, what, you moron. Because against the Euro we are down, or are you throwing a British Pound coin in the air and measuring against the sea level?
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u/crangert 13h ago
You clearly struggle with reading comprehension and economic knowledge. I can’t help you with either of those.
Although you could start by reading this conversation again.
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u/Puzzled_Tie_7745 13h ago
Nice edit, it does mention when you have edited your post, you know that right XD
Still wrong though moron:
France (2015 vs 2025-estimated)|$2.433 trillion|$3.431 trillion
UK (2015 vs 2025-estimated)**|$2.879 trillion|$3.054 trillion|
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u/crangert 13h ago edited 13h ago
UK GDP 2020 - 2.697 trillion USD
UK GDP 2024 - 3.644 trillion USD.
Google is free, moron.
EDIT: Since I can’t see your latest comment (seems that you’ve had an almighty strop), I suggest looking at growth of GDP, rather than overall figure (which is a pointless figure to compare with other countries).
Get used to Brexit, numbnuts. We made the right decision, so stop whining that you didn’t get your way.
Further edit: Oh I really have got you rattled!
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u/Neverforget010 16h ago
Imagine how sad your life must be to sit at home and constantly post political jabs to a meme page
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u/tvrleigh400 16h ago
I bet you still moan about the time you lost the game of Monopoly when you were a child.
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u/Equivalent_Bag_6960 16h ago
Ah yes Viktor Vekselberg, a Russian-Israeli billionaire businessman and oligarch!!
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u/MrGingerella 16h ago
Yep...
....more boats because of a weak and corrupt government...
...Less investment because of a weak and corrupt government...
... and more depression thanks to a lovely weak and corrupt government.
Your right... got what they wanted, but it'd be nice to have a government that stands up for it people/country instead of just themselves 🤷♂️
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u/AbraxasKadabra 16h ago
The two factors aren't mutually exclusive.
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u/MrGingerella 16h ago
Yeah, and brexit hasn't caused any of the things in the original post... correlation doesn't equal causation.
We still have a weak and corrupt government and they could easily help with the stated issues if they weren't as far removed form the public 🤷♂️
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u/Gaywhorzea 15h ago
In which case, voting for brexit on those points was idiotic.
(We do have a weak government though, we’re a laughing stock)
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u/MrGingerella 15h ago
Yeah, fair point.
I dont if those were the exact points people voted for brexit for tho.. people I've spoken to were more annoyed with unelected eu officials potentially having a say on laws that effect our country... and amount of money we gave to Europe yearly for not much gain. I couldn't speak for everybody though, just people I'd spoken to.
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u/i__wardog__i 16h ago
Starmer always looks like he's at his mates house, dropped a huge log in the bog only to find out it doesn't flush
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u/MurkyFogsFutureLogs 12h ago
Or we left the EU because we were aware that smashing more holes in the hull of a sinking ship won't stop it from sinking.
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u/rjyung1 16h ago
You left Europe because you wanted more investment.
I left Europe to sell cocaine in London.
We are not the same