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Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market
(www.theguardian.com)
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I mean, the pro Brexit camp painted this as a way to stop immigration (from non -EU citizens). The EU did not have any say on immigration policy, (besides free travel for EU citizens) so Brexit didn't change anything in that regard.
I do agree that that information was available to anyone that wanted to know more, but there's a lot of dumb people among the electorate, that's true of any country.
Right. But it wasn't just "available", it was being shouted from the rooftops. The brexiteers had to come up with an entire conceptualization of experts as fearmongers to try to dismiss it.
I mean, yeah, you can present that as stupidity, and there's certainly something to it, but it was also being ignored by perfectly reasonable people. I am not ready to argue that we live in an idiocracy with no recourse. Or that the UK does, anyway.
There is definitely something broken in a world where our political communication lands on that pattern over and over again, though.