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Not necessarily. Some of them just had different priorities - giving the political establishment a kicking - after a decade of unneccessary austerity. I strongl
by frereubu 7y ago
Not necessarily. Some of them just had different priorities - giving the political establishment a kicking - after a decade of unneccessary austerity. I strongly disagree with those priorities, and think they shot themslves in the foot in the most terrible way, but to characterise 52% of the people who voted as stupid is to miss the point.
- makomk 7y agoIt also wasn't entirely inappropriate as a way of giving the UK political establishment a good kicking, given that they'd been using the EU for decades as a way of pushing through laws they knew voters didn't want without that pesky business of having to publicly back them and get MPs to do the same. Remain supporters love to point to the fact that many unpopular EU laws were actually pushed for by the UK government as proof Leave supporters are stupid to blame the EU, but I don't think that argument flies.