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Tim Streater wrote:
You have a referendum where the outcome is split near 50/50 where lies
were told by both parties and where it was expected that one side would
win whatever happened so its completely obvious that a lot of the votes
would be cast as protest votes by people that didn't actually expect
them to count just as is done in by-elections.

If lies are told by both parties what are you complaining about.

Depends how powerful those lies were. And over what period they were told
- so some come to believe they are true.

For example, the lie told by Farage about there being millions of Turks
about to come to the UK has rather more influence than mentioning an
emergency budget after a vote to leave. And so on.

The vast majority of the popular press just loved any stories that showed
the EU in a poor light. True or false didn't matter. And unlike such
things about UK politics, the EU wasn't really in any position to refute
them.


And
you are talking cock about what is obvious and what is not.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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