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@JWestland
Not saying Remain didn't make mistakes, I am sure they did. BUT: People were encouraged to vote on their gut and were sold an illusion of democracy.
Immigration? Gut feeling. Instead of breaking it down for people, Leave choose to use generalized blaming, which Remain picked up the wrong way by calling people racist/xenophobic (well some of them, not all, like not all brexiters etc) and generalized blaming is GREAT! It stops people thinking about their own interests.
What part of immigration is the issue? How will brexit fix this? Can they be held to their promises? Will there be a points system? What is going on with lack of integration? Will brexit fix this? Can Leave be held to their promises? (nope?)
Democracy? Same thing. "We don't need experts". Populism again. What is the first thing we see? Mob rule. "the people have spoken". See also the referenda in Ireland and The Netherlands where the ruling power pretends they give people power, but they don't.
The concerns and promises are genuine in many cases, but the way Leave handled it and bullshitted there would be real empowerment is a disgrace.
All we can do now is write and complain about the things we don't like. Because we are all in the same boat.
(and Osborne is an asshat I think we can mostly agree on that ;)