Re: AKA: People
Poor logic from that point of view. We were within the EU. Voting to leave is a vote to make a change Not voting is not stating a wish to change the status quo.So a minority vote to change was allowed to stand as a decision. It's why referendum votes on serious matters normally have a threshold:This is nothing new or previously unknown.
And yes. I would equally view a tiny majority in a future vote to rejoin with a significant percentage not voting as being highly dodgy. Especially it it were achieved by outrageous voter manipulation, dark propaganda campaigns and out and out lies.
Voters who actually wanted to leave were motivated to go out and vote Leave. Voter manipulation doesn't need to persuade voters into your camp- it merely needs to make them unsure so that they don't turn out to vote for the other one. Voters who didn't want to leave did not have the same degree of motivation, why would they, we were already in. All that was needed was to make the voters who wanted to retain the status quo but weren't too fussed feel unsure enough to stop them turning out.
In effect a minority of more highly motivated Leave voters was allowed to trump the larger combined group of {wanting to remain} and {willing to remain} voters because the willing group were made unsure by lying claims about Turkish Immigrants or money that we could give to the NHS ( or something about fish that no one understood but it sounded bad).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
