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The yes/no nature of the vote was also a mistake. “Keep it as it is” Vs “change something” lumped in everyone who wanted anything from a swiss or Nordic style deal down to hard brexiteers and protest votes into the same category, when normally they wouldn’t have agreed.
If it were to happen at all, it should have been a ranked vote.
Particularly given at the time it was presented as an opinion vote. Of course when it turned out the way the ERG wanted they couldn’t wait to push a retcon to make it binding through parliament because small margins apparently mean unassailable “will of the people”. Had it gone the other way they would have used it to push for another binding one “look nearly half of people want it… bla bla bla”.
Half of us in the UK knew this too. Just unfortunately a slither under half of those that voted at the time.
Please don’t tar us all with the same xenophobic self flagellating brush.
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