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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Same here.

I wasn't going to keep on paying through my taxes the pensions of the kind of people who detested me simply because of where I was born (the proportion of Leave votes was much higher amongst older Britons).

Also a hard-nosed analysis of the whole thing yielded the conclusion that Brexit would significantly accelerate the downwards spiral of the UK.

It's thanks to such hard-noses analisys that most of my savings were protected from being hit by the fall in the British Pound when the Referendum vote yielded a Leave as result and in the subsequent years - I "smelled the wind" even before the vote and moved most of my money and assets out of the UK and the Pound in preparation for a "Leave" result.

Decoupling from the UK, including leaving the country, were some of my best decisions ever, as I keep getting reminded periodically everytime there are news of the UK government doing yet another highly authoritarian action (I don't even follow their Economy anymore)