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Sorry but I find this naive. The information was there. We have a highly literate population and widespread technology that means the vast majority of the adult population have instant access to unparalleled levels information through a user-friendly device carried in their pockets.

Typical gaslighting narrative. Everything was there right in front of your face.

I have a 70 year old living next door to me who was bragging about having her first email address last month. It is this sort of ignorance that you conmen rely on.

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I’m relying on the fact that:

61% of Leave voters saying significant economic damage would be a price worth paying, 39% going further and saying they’d consider it acceptable if Brexit led to them or their family members losing their jobs.

Your point on a 70 year having less access to modern technology does not represent most of the population. It doesn’t even represent most 70 year olds - my parents are that age and they’ve both had email addresses since the 1990s and smart phones for over a decade, and use them very actively.

What does represent the wider population is that a majority of Leavers were pretty clear they wanted Brexit to happen regardless of any economic consequences. They didn’t vote based on empirical factors, they voted based on ideology. Brexit wasn’t science for them, it was religion.

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Your point on a 70 year having less access to modern technology does not represent most of the population.

So you are saying that conning most of the population is perfectly acceptable. While ignoring the fact that the con was in the information given.

What does represent the wider population is that a majority of Leavers were pretty clear they wanted Brexit to happen regardless of any economic consequences.

Says who? Which moron broke with the traditional lies and told people there would be economic consequences?

People voted for Brexit because the lies were that things would be cheaper, there would be no change in access to Europe, and we would have more money for services. Didn’t you have a bus around your village?

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Says who?

I literally linked to an example of polling on this matter. If you Google it you’ll find the were several more similar ones - e.g. there was one showing that many Leave voters considered the breakup of the UK a price worth paying too. They didn’t give a shit.

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