All that’s missing is a pledge to bring back hanging, the Black & White Minstrel Show and the British Empire and it would sum up Brexit perfectly (IMO).
I think quite a few people were genuinely taken in by:
- the £350m for the NHS (the net UK contribution was half that);
- the daunting thought of having to cope with a potential 70 million+ Turks about to be landing on UK's doorstep as a new member country (it never was), all scrounging while people were still reeling from austerity;
- the misconception that "Brussels" was some far-away foreign dictatorship imposing ridiculous laws (without realising just how many UK MEPs (third ex-aequo largest) were involved in shaping those laws, nor the fact that the UK contingent voted in favour of 95% of them);
- the fact that fishing quotas (another emotive issue) are allocated to member states, who then decided how to allocate them domestically;
- the insidious subliminal influence of much of the tabloid press;
- ...
I don't know anyone who believes that the EU is perfect (myself included). On the other hand, I still haven't seen a solution on the table that would offer a better deal, nor one in which the UK would hold "all the cards".
The slogans of the need to "fight" to "regain" "sovereignty", "freedom", "liberty", etc., may sound impressive, but as Farage himself admitted - "Brexit was never going to solve any of the UK's domestic problems".
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