So the Brexit happened. Great Britain, in a close vote, decided to invoke Article 50 and leave the European Union.
Such a move would have huge consequences, both for the UK and for the EU, and the voters knew all the risks when they made this choice.
Hours after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, its residents wondered, what is the EU, anyway?
People in the U.K. sought answers to some very basic questions following the Brexit referendum, according to Google Trends data, which measures how popular recent queries are on the world’s most popular search engine.
The top question was a good one that many experts now struggle to answer—“What does it mean to leave the EU?” But others, to put it charitably, are the sort voters might have asked prior to the world-shaking decision to abandon the European project.
That’s right. They voted on something they didn’t even know anything about. Nigel Farage must be so proud this morning.
And here you thought Americans were stupid.
