I'm sure some people are delighted by this. My take on it is that this is the bed the YES voters made, and now they are lying in it. I don't get any pleasure from rubes being duped, but it's also hard to have sympathy for them. They had an opportunity to think about this before voting, they had all kinds of people talking about the consequences, and they went right ahead with voting YES anyway.
I wish everyone could have critical thinking & reasoning skills, but since that isn't the world we live in, highlighting the after effects of decisions like this feels like the responsible thing to do for the next time a hugely consequential bill is introduced. We don't need to mock the people affected, but pointing out the completely foreseeable outcomes as they're happening is still important.
It's a Northern Ireland thing, because the land border to the rest of Ireland is also a land border to the EU. The UK's food standards are fine, last time I checked the overall food security (welfare, etc) and food standards were tied in second place, with the US.
> My take on it is that this is the bed the YES voters made, and now they are lying in it.
But that's exactly my point, you're seeing this as a person having made a foolish decision, and now suffering for it.
But there is no such person mentioned in the article. It's an entirely imagined hypocrite.
I imagine all of the people upset that they no longer have EU food standards voted to keep the EU food standards...
The people mentioned in the article are from london and are eating "Ardennes-style pâté". They are not, as a class, people who voted for brexit. In the article, one of them complains about the nationalistic fervour of others that led them to this point.
I don't imagine there are any brexit voters out there who feel anything other than pleased about the appearance of "not for EU" labels. They probably feel it supports long-suffering local farmers, and will serve to stimulate the production of things in the UK as opposed to importing it from eastern/southern Europe. Whether they are right or not is entirely immaterial to my point, which is that people who know very little about matters persist in feeling superior over people they don't understand the motivations of
I wish everyone could have critical thinking & reasoning skills, but since that isn't the world we live in, highlighting the after effects of decisions like this feels like the responsible thing to do for the next time a hugely consequential bill is introduced. We don't need to mock the people affected, but pointing out the completely foreseeable outcomes as they're happening is still important.