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In 50 years we wont be able to tell the middle ages voters as they'll be dead.
you give the electorate far too much credit. Many of them still believe politicians and choose to use the daily mail as a fact checking mechanism. If they'd wanted a fair referendum they'd have had to start 50 years ago with the education system and then worked up and out from there.
I really do not give the electorate too much credit. As I said the electorate had plenty of opportunity to inform themselves, not that they had the faculties and/or will to capitalise on that opportunity.
A downside of democracy vs autocratic rule it is requires the electorates decisions to be respected whether they are worthy of that respect or not. Democracy does have plenty of upsides when compared to autocratic rule though.
But relax since we have CONTROL and we can stop foreigners coming in.
And anybody who voted to leave for this reason was not very well informed because it is obvious that the government will be strongly incentivised to join EEA in order to minimise recession, and joining the EEA will require agreeing to free movement of people from the EU.
You are not suggesting that the whole referendum has been based on a false premise are you?
What are we going to do, if all the foreigners can keep coming in?
Tut and mutter under your breath? While less savoury elements of society paint racist graffiti and shout at brown-skinned strangers on public transport. What a great victory it's been.
The thing that I have the biggest problem with is that the Leave Campaign knowingly lied about things like "money to the NHS instead of the EU" and their ability to "Stop Immigation". We now know that neither will happen and clearly that was always the case. Nothing changed overnight.
When we were in the UK we spoke to many people who had voted Leave but the next day felt betrayed as the truth of the situation started coming out. They felt that they had voted incorrectly - on bad information. Hence the idea of a cooling off period.
Do the Leavers who are happy with the outcome agree that some other leavers were deliberately mislead? Do they deny that any lies occurred? Do they scorn the naivety of the voters who were so easily tricked?