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Some unfair brush strokes of Remainers here, majority of whom care deeply about poverty and inequality, but this is bang on: ‘All talk switched to meaningful votes – yet in vast stretches of UK, what they want is meaningful lives’. That’s how we campaign. theguardian.com/politics/comme…
There’s a point which often comes up: that you can’t say voters were lied to. I understand why, but fact remains a vast number of lies were told. Leave lied about £350m, lied about a dividend for NHS, lied about Turkey joining. Many believed them.
How many people who supported Iraq war still do now? I don’t know any ex-supporters who feel shame in admitting they were lied to. It’s the job of leaders to inform us so we can build opinions & make decisions. If they deliberately mislead, that’s a verdict on them, not us.
Voters don’t blame themselves when politicians are revealed to be frauds. They vote those frauds out of office. Of course people were suspicious of campaign claims, but doesn’t change fact Leave told lies on industrial scale. Voters shouldn’t feel guilty, they should feel angry.
