Pumps run dry at gas stations in Britain

Re:Pumps run dry at gas stations in Britain by ben_w on Monday September 27, 2021 @11:46AM (#28672136)

One thing I’ve noticed a lot of in the last five years, has been that the thing being objected to by a Leave supporter can vary from the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances[0] to the Lisbon treaty.

When it’s half the country each way, you’re going to get a lot of people with very different ideas on what they voted for even at the best of times; with two different competing leave campaigns and shockingly inept government communications on the topic, it’s even worse.

[0] I’ve tried to engage with someone who blamed “the EU” for Russia annexing the Ukraine.

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Re:Pumps run dry at gas stations in Britain by CRConrad on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @04:32AM (#28756777)

> I’ve tried to engage with someone who blamed “the EU” for Russia annexing the Ukraine.

You mean someone blamed the EU for what Russia did under Catherine the Great (or whenever it was they originally annexed the Ukraine), or you mean someone blamed the EU for Russia annexing Crimea in 2014?

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Re:Pumps run dry at gas stations in Britain by ben_w on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:24AM (#28757072)

Good spot! Yes, Crimea.

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Re:Pumps run dry at gas stations in Britain by CRConrad on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @05:55AM (#28771104)

One can't help but marvel at the fuckwittery it must take to blame the EU for this.

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