Originally Posted by
Burney
You speak as if the Leave vote were an aberration. In fact it was in line with decades of polling showing a strong anti-EU sentiment in this country. The only thing that was remarkable was that that sentiment held up in the face of relentless fearmongering propaganda from the Government, business figures, international bodies, a cross-party consensus, the President of the United States, the Bank of England, the OECD, Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all.
The very fact that you think the Leave vote was 'a perfect storm' rather than the logical culmination of the strong anti-EU sentiments people in this country have felt for a long time only goes to show how little you grasped how people in the UK really felt.
Which, of course, is rather my point.