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One of the original suggested referendum questions was "Do you think that the United Kingdom should be a member of the European Union?" It was rejected in favo

• delboy88 10y ago
  You seem to be implying that people who did not know the UK was in the EU would vote to leave rather than to stay. If that's what you're implying, where's the evidence to support that?
• ozborn 10y ago
  That's not evidence in my book. If you check the history of the European Union (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_European_Union) it is history of various agreements between an ever-changing set of member states. Eventually (1992) there is the Maastricht Treaty that creates called the European Union, but that has been amended various times. To complicate things there is also the European Economic Community (renamed to European Community) and member states are in/out of various important provisions of European governance such as the Euro or the Schengen Agreement (like the UK and Ireland). The Schengen Agreement I believe includes even some non-EU members. So people googling for "What is the EU" isn't proof of stupidity in my book. They may haven been familiar with critical elements of the EU (which were the deciding factors for their vote) but want to understand the full implications of this historic vote.