> Many people voted leave as a protest against the state of the country, not the EU, and have said so. This is true in my experience, almost all arguments I ha

> Many people voted leave as a protest against the state of the country, not the EU, and have said so. This is true in my experience, almost all arguments I have ever heard in person are of this form... I don't know where this came from but suspect the concept of "Leave == Change" was likely seeded on social media. > The referendum was about many things, and most of them weren't our membership of the EU. Yes, this is the source of the problem, even though manipulation is more of a problem than it used to be, this vote is particularly vulnerable to it because it's so poorly defined - it's basically impossible to have a sane and comprehensive debate about the topic so instead people naturally cling onto something that fits their values, and it's extremely easy to just fabricate those things in this case.