Photek wrote:Jesus.
I've listened to James O'Brien, watched Newsnight and followed things about brexit when I can. It all boils down mainly to racism imo, you can say they were misinformed and some of them were. In that scenario, right now, anyone who say's they were misinformed should now change their opinion on Brexit and anyone who still says Leave after looking at the facts or choosing not to, I think, is racist.
I am not sure that is totally true. There was definitely a huge amount of racism/xenophobia around the vote (I highly doubt many racists voted for Remain
) but that doesn’t account for all of the Leave vote.
Misinformation/lies were a big culprit, the prominent Leave campaigners lied and scaremongered and did so with no punishment at all. In fact one of them got a plum job as Foreign Secretary. Who wouldn’t want £350million extra per week put into healthcare? Who wouldn’t want to lead the world in trade? Who wouldn’t want to be free of a despotic fascist regime? Who wouldn’t want sovereignty? All of that misinformation and lies got into the heads of a huge number of people.
Ignorance is also to blame (and is linked to the above), people couldn’t be arsed to educate themselves about what the EU was, what it did and why it was a good thing for us. I see clips of O’Brien’s radio show where he always seems to be asking Leavers what law/regulation they disliked. And they can never ever answer, because they have no idea.
The Remain campaign should take some of the blame, it was a rubbish campaign and never had a comeback to any of the Leave lies.
You are right that people ought to now look at the facts and re-evaluate, but those people are still being lied to, they are still lazy ignoramuses and the top Remainers are still useless. People don’t like to admit they were wrong or stupid and it’s easy for them to get away with living in ignorance as they are still being told that “the EU are bullying us!”, “the metropolitan elite want to overrule your vote”, “ReMoaners!” and other such bollocks.