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Jessica Brown
Jun 23, 2017

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It's been one year since the UK voted to leave the EU.
As negotiations for Brexit get going between the UK and EU it seems we're off to a great start....
Juncker on May proposal: "This is the first step, this step is not sufficient"... does he know what type of Brexit UK wants: "No".— Faisal Islam (@Faisal Islam) 1498204422
Unsurprisingly, thanks to the somewhat weird political situation the UK is in at the moment, we've become a bit of a laughing stock to outsiders.
Politicians from other countries, voters and cartoonists are just some of those mocking the UK right now.
Here's a little summary of the current shambles.
A Swiss newspaper recently summed it up:
The ones who will suffer most will be the British people, who were lied to by the Brexit campaign during the referendum and betrayed and treated like idiots by elements of their press. After the loss of its empire, the United Kingdom sought a new place in the world. It finally found it, as a strong, awkward and influential part of a larger union: the EU. Now it has given up this place quite needlessly.
Even the EU Council president, Donald Tusk, is mocking us – with our own, greatest musical export.
"You may say I am a dreamer, but I am not the only one." EU Council President Donald Tusk quotes John Lennon on pro… https://t.co/SpvtqhAQoB— CNN International (@CNN International) 1498200836
Boris Johnson was mocked by the German and French foreign ministers for suggesting we could stay in the single market without freedom of movement.
While the government’s Brexit department was teased for tweeting graphs that seemed to show the economic benefits of staying in the EU.
We have a long and successful history as a trading nation. We've seen steady growth in trade as a percentage of GDP… https://t.co/GX6iUKMrhG— Department for Exiting the EU (@Department for Exiting the EU) 1492094971
There have also been a whole host of incredible magazine covers over the past 12 months.
Picture: Charlie Hebdo
But Brits aren’t much that optimistic either. A recent YouGov poll found that only a quarter of people think the government is well prepared for EU negotiations.
To be fair, we've made it very easy for people to mock us:
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