‘I’m ashamed to be a Brexit voter - it never occurred to me that my holidays would be affected'
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A gardener from Hertfordshire with a £43,000 farm in Umbria says he is hoping to leave England for good
  • @Pringles@lemm.ee
    4•1 year ago

    The remain campaign was complacent and that’s why they lost. The polls showed a majority for remain and many thought it wasn’t necessary to go vote as remain was going to win anyway.

    So before you lay blame with brexit voters, you should lay the blame with people who wanted to remain and couldn’t be bothered to show up and vote. They dropped the ball and the brexit voter then kicked it away.

    • DessertStorms
      7•1 year ago

      So before you lay blame with brexit voters, you should lay the blame with people who wanted to remain and couldn’t be bothered to show up and vote.

      No, we should all be blaming the media and the people it serve who used their essentially unlimited power to manipulate the entire population to give them the result they wanted.

    • TheHarpyEagle
      7•1 year ago

      How do you figure? I’m seeing that voter turnout was 72%, which is higher than even the general election, and it’s unlikely that improving that even among young voters probably wouldn’t have made a difference.

      https://academic.oup.com/economicpolicy/article/32/92/601/4459491?login=true

      We also carry out a back-of-the-envelope calculation regarding turnout. Young people voted overwhelmingly in favour of Remain but had a lower turnout than older age groups. We find that a higher turnout of young voters would have been very unlikely to result in a different referendum outcome, partly because their turnout was already elevated compared with previous UK-wide elections.