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Re:UK to depart from GDPR by krageon on Friday March 12, 2021 @05:30AM (#26434163)
> a large chunk of them have pretty much not agreed

Yes, but a far larger chunk has. Every country gets the leaders it deserves and the UK is no exception.

Re:UK to depart from GDPR by modo_mario on Friday March 12, 2021 @05:36AM (#26434220)
Tbh simply based on the amount of elderly voters that died since it's likely that majority is gone by now. At least so I've read in some article months ago.

All things considered it was relatively close so not exactly a far larger chunk.

I don't have any spite towards the British people but I do hope that the EU will act in EU interest which means facilitating the return of financial services that shifted towards London since they joined and not letting the UK and whatever the borderdeal ends up as serve as a loop to ignore single market regulations.

Re:UK to depart from GDPR by dane-pgp on Friday March 12, 2021 @07:20AM (#26434986)
From 2018:

"there are some demographic trends that will influence opinion in future. These changes will tend to pull British public opinion in a pro-European direction, and should be sufficient to produce a majority of 52%-48% for ‘Remain’ in 2021"

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2018/05/01/demographic-trends...

Re:UK to depart from GDPR by blibble on Friday March 12, 2021 @12:36PM (#26438374)
Leave would likely win by a bigger majority if the referendum was repeated today, because the UK didn't collapse on leaving

also add the EU's disastrous vaccine procurement scheme, combined with its attempt to obscure its total incompetence with petulant nationalistic flailing

Re:UK to depart from GDPR by user-the-name on Friday March 12, 2021 @05:37AM (#26434230)
Not really. 37% of the electorate at the time voted for Brexit. The rest have not really "agreed" to it. Also, since then, many people have come of age who did not get to vote in the election.
Re:UK to depart from GDPR by Chris2048 on Friday March 12, 2021 @05:44AM (#26434283)
I didn't get to vote in the original election to join the EU, so can we re-run that one too?