Brexit the ‘stupidest thing any country has ever done’ – Michael Bloomberg
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0623/1519905-brexit-the-stupidest-thing-any-country-has-ever-done/
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Brexit the ‘stupidest thing any country has ever done’ – Michael Bloomberg
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2025/0623/1519905-brexit-the-stupidest-thing-any-country-has-ever-done/
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I can think of at least one stupider thing a country has done recently
That means it’s worse than electing Trump for a second time, that’s pretty bloody bad.
Not for long, we’ll do something even worse sooner or later
> Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has told an audience in Dublin that Brexit was the single stupidest thing any country has ever done,
Conveniently forgetting countries involved in wars, genocides and dictatorships which have lead to the abuse, torture and deaths of millions of innocent people, and the misery it has lead to for countless millions more.
Really?
More stupid than the Partition of India, Invading the Soviet Union c1941, Bombing Pearl Harbour, the Cultural Revolution, Napoleon invading Russia?
That’s off the top of my head.
It was monumentally stupid but I’d argue electing Donald ‘the criminal rapist paedophile’ Trump not once, but twice, is far more stupid.
I don’t know man Germany starting WW2 was more stupid surely
Which makes this one of the stupidest men that ever spoke.
Wait till you hear they’ll elect the bellend that mainly pushed for it in another 4 years.
I mean america keeps electing trump.
That sure seems pretty stupid.
Brexit is just proof democracy is over. People are too thick/lazy/ignorant to review political information and data to make an informed decision.
This means it’s either Facebook influence or gut feeling from a sound bite that drives the course of a country/world.
It was ok when the parties were different sides of the same coin but things have become so split now i really would have some kind of economics/maths/literary test on a ballot paper and depending the result you vote can get reduced from 1 to a fraction. A
Invading Ukraine? Voting for Trump? relying on Russian gas after 2015?
Well that’s obvious. Second worst will be trusting Farage again.
Now we have to suck to both the US and europe for anything and everything with no counter offer
Germany murdered 6million Jews in WW2. But this is more stupid than that?
Idk about that, there’s a few more contenders in the running
Remember the Khwarazmians? No? Because that is the outcome of doing the stupidest thing of all time.
We voted for Brexit and hopeful Reform will win the next election and we will finally get it.
Considering current ongoing world events, I would say this quote is a bit silly
In all honesty I think voting for Farrage would be far stupider than voting for either Brexit or Trump.
The guy caused Brexit with his lies and even though the majority of people regret it they still want to vote for him?
Brexit was sold on lies that people believed, Trump has support of the Bible belt, rednecks and white supremacists they knew exactly what they voted for.
Yes Brexit was a disaster but Nigel says it like it is.
No he doesn’t he tells you what you wants to here and delivers nothing.
He delivered nothing while in the EU representing British fishing industry, he delivered none of his Brexit benefit promised, he’s delivered nothing to the people of Clacton, or to those wanting his support in parliament and yet we are expected to believe he’ll do it different this time.
I wouldn’t trust him to deliver a pint of milk
I don’t know America seems to be Trimping us on the old stupidity scale.
People were scared about the immigration. Unfortunately now they are twice as scared. The lesson is don’t hold a referendum if you have already scared the people.
The US elected Donald Trump in 2016. That was stupider.
Then, after he lost and tried to cling onto power AND they already had seen him govern for four years, they decided to elect him again.
Great, now you have me agreeing with some douchey billionaire
Anyone with more than 2 braincells to rub together is fully aware of this Michael, thankyou for your input.
I completely agree it was a stupid thing to do, I lay them blame entirely at the door of Nigel Farage/Boris Johnson for back it and pushing it forwards, and also at David Cameron for doing literally nothing to put forward a counter argument
Yup democracy can be pretty bad when the people voting are voting because of lies and deception. An educated and informed populace is the only way it works correctly. But people love to vote against their own interests thanks to private ownership of the media they consume.
I think Brexit is a mess, but it’s our mess. I feel weirdly defensive at the idea of an American billionaire taking shots at us over it, especially if this is the type of hyperbolic shite he’s going to say.
‘it’s hard to believe how they did it.”
Pretty simple really,Cameron offered it up thinking he knew best,arrogant fucking prick.
British electorate said ‘fuck you Dave’. Regrettably,that number turned out to be the majority.
Bloomberg said if he knew brexit was coming he’d never has built his massive HQ in the heart of the City of London.
In that same vein… Brexit – the stupidest thing any Prime Minister has ever gambled in history, the stupidest thing any politician ever supported anywhere on earth.
Nope not even close, voting in too power Free Gear Keir and his merry bunch of halfwits is easily the worst thing the UKs ever done. Being demonstrated every day with each new balls up.