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IndySuntoday at 11:01 AM1 replyview on HN

55%, maybe. But that still leaves a divided country for decades afterwards. It was handled badly from start to finish. Many 'remainers' didn't take the threat serious enough. Never under estimate your opponent.


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TheOtherHobbestoday at 11:31 AM

Cameron put a Eurosceptic in charge of the Remain campaign, and Nick Clegg - supposedly an arch Remainer - went to work for Meta after Cambridge Analytica and its contribution to Brexit became public knowledge.

The public were conned. The oligarch-adjacent ruling faction of the ruling class knew exactly what they were doing, the lack of specificity for any Leave plan was deliberate, the lies and propaganda were cynical and calculated, and they were delighted with the result.

Then they gave us Boris as the first of a succession of clown car comedy Prime Ministers, and started hyping Farage.

It's all a stage set. The public in the UK have zero influence on any of these developments.

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