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Leave were perfectly aware of this, which is why Brexit was presented as everything for everyone instead of a specific deal. Quite literally. Aside from the br
by TheOtherHobbes 4y ago
Leave were perfectly aware of this, which is why Brexit was presented as everything for everyone instead of a specific deal.
Quite literally. Aside from the broad lies - the infamous £350m a week for the NHS, and the "Absolutely no one is suggesting the UK will leave the Single Market", among many others - Cambridge Analytica aimed micro-targeted ads with knowingly misleading promises at micro-demographics.
The whole point of Brexit was to remove local and EU democratic oversight and turn the UK into a neoliberal dictatorship. Those responsible are perfectly happy to trash most of the UK's economy as long as they personally get much, much richer.
The entire project is a shocking exercise in leveraging exceptionalist collective narcissism into a pretext for oligarchy and corruption on a Russian scale.
- pessimizer 4y ago> The whole point of Brexit was to remove local and EU democratic oversight and turn the UK into a neoliberal dictatorship. Of course, the expectation that the EU should be saving the UK from its local elites who the UK press and voters continue to protect and elect is a strange one. It's certainly antidemocratic.
- makomk 4y agoIt's even stranger if you think about another common anti-Brexit argument: that many of the "EU laws" which caused people to vote for Brexit were actually created by the UK and Brexit supporters were tricked into blaming the EU for them, where the "UK" in question was actually the same tiny group of UK leaders that we're meant to fear Brexit will hand over control to, behind closed doors, with no real functioning democratic oversight.
- pydry 4y agoIt did moderate some of the more vicious impulses of local elites. Look at the enthusiasm with which they went at the human rights act.