Thread by @kirmber2

I ran into a rabid Brexiter on my evening walk today. Talked about how happy he was now that UK was leaving the EU. I tried to keep my cool and think I managed to get in a few hard facts, like it’s not the EU forcing a hard border in Ireland #Disinformation #Brexit

The guy happens to be an (unfollowed but not unfriended) FB friend, and he offered me a ride home and said “Please don’t unfriend me.”
He’s decent enough, but very ill informed. I also told him that I’ve never been to a country more ill informed about EU than the UK.

I told him that there had been a massive anti EU disinformation campaign in the UK since the early 1990ies. The lies were so many the EU found it necessary to launch a separate page to debunk it. It has arond 600 entries, I sad.
Referring to this: blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euro…

He made a big point about not having voted for Junker and other EU officials, and that he didn’t know who they were. I never got around to asking him if he voted for candidates from other constituencies in a GE or if he knew all British MPs by name. #BrexitLies

Anyway, a decent, ordinary chap. I think we could have a good chat if we met again. 😉

Much of what he said had to do with muslims coming here and not accepting our culture. Sweden was destroyed, he said. I said that that was just not true and that this information probably came from a Russian disinformation outlet. Ref to Finnish intelligence about Russia.

The situation for EU citizens in UK would ot change, he said. I told him about a Finnish citizen working as an associate professor at a UK uni, married to a Brit and lived here 10 years. She received a letter from HO telling her to prepare to leave the UK. Guy looked shocked.