Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
One of the myths that has grown up over the past two years is that all of the 52% voted for a particular kind of Brexit. That's just not true - people were basically asked do you like a particular organisation and less than half of the country when you go by those entitled to vote said they didn't. so this view carried the day.
There were all sorts of reasons why the 52% voted the way they did, some of them fueled by ignorance because of the abysmal standard of the debate on both sides, but no matter what sort of Brexit we end up with, there are going to be large numbers within the 52 % that won't be happy with the outcome.
What was needed was an informed national debate which could have taken months, or even years if need be. Instead we got ludicrous scaremongering on the one side and complete fantasy on the other as the most important decision this country faced since the second world war was rushed through to try and end a schism that has divided the governing party for decades, while the official opposition sat on it's hands hoping that no one would notice that they were riven by the same divide that afflicts the tories.
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