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Seems like a silly article given the original voting: The UK voted to leave the EU by 52% to 48%. Hardly surprising there isn't much support now when it started
by robocat 2y ago
Seems like a silly article given the original voting: The UK voted to leave the EU by 52% to 48%. Hardly surprising there isn't much support now when it started without much support.
https://archive.ph/0EWrR https://archive.ph/0EWrR
- smarm52 2y agoIt's worse than that, just ~26% of the population made the decision for the rest. Which interestingly, is roughly the percentage of populist Conservatives in the US as well. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/bulletins/annualmidyearpopulationestimates/mid2016 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati... > The Leave side led with 17.4 million votes, or 52 percent, versus the Remain side’s 16.1 million, or 48 percent, with a turnout of around 72 percent. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/24/world/europe/how-britain-voted-brexit-referendum.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/24/world/europe/... > The population of the UK at 30 June 2016 is estimated to be 65,648,000 people. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populationandmigration/populationestimates/bulletins/annualmidyearpopulationestimates/mid2016 https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...
- hindsightbias 2y agohttp://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunch-discussions-145-crazification.html http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2005/10/lunch-discussions-145-c...