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snoodog  ·  2833 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: After Brexit Vote, The British Ask Google: 'What is the EU?'

You know "what is the eu?" is not a crazy question to be asking as a British citizen. Britain got to do a lot of picking and choosing (other countries did to but not as much). So being in the EU for Britain may mean something different than being in the EU as France.

The source is Biased but Table 3 on pg 6 is really kind of interesting. It shows some of the special status that the UK enjoys.

http://news.cbi.org.uk/business-issues/uk-and-the-european-union/eu-business-facts/eu-two-futures-cbi-april-2016-pdf/

I think most people would have a hard time really defining what it means for britain to be part (or not) of the EU





user-inactivated  ·  2833 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    You know "what is the eu?" is not a crazy question to be asking as a British citizen.

No, it's not, but the time to do your homework is before the vote.

Dala  ·  2833 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I agree. But one would hope people would try to figure that out before voting, not after.

Maybe we're reading this all wrong and the source of the searches is people who are too young to vote trying to figure out what is going on. Honestly I don't have that much faith in humanity though.

snoodog  ·  2832 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There is no way to tell if those searching actually voted. If a large % of the searches are from non voters it would make sense they were confused and wanted to figure out what their countrymen just voted to leave