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52% of voters who voted voted for Leave in 2016. But that was just 37% of the registered electorate, and just 26.7% of the UK population taken as a whole. So the "majority of people in the UK" have never wanted Brexit, and repeating that lie a million times doesn't make it true.
And while we're on Brexit games with numbers, the referendum was never the "largest democratic mandate in our history". More votes were cast in the 1992 GE, and a higher turnout was achieved in the Scottish indie ref, and *many* GEs.
It is true that Leave achieved the highest total number of votes in 2016 for a given choice of outcome, but that's because a referendum only has two choices vs the multiple choices of a GE. Overall, more people participated in 1992.
What do both the above claims have in common? They're true only with a string of qualifiers. Like someone claiming to be the world's fastest runner, whereas in actual fact they're only the fastest left-handed blue-eyed person named John. Without the qualifiers, they're lies.
At this stage, nearly 3 years on from the referendum, seasoned politicians must surely understand the above nuances. If they choose to keep making false claims, *they are lying*, and should be called on it every time. How about it, @BBCNews @itvnews @SkyNews @Channel4News ?
In other words "the will of *some people* on one particular day three years ago" isn't magically "the will of all people, for all time".
