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I guess you can whinge about conspiracies or engage with the reality of the politics.
Fear being exploited ≠ fears being baseless.
miro_o-
Pffff.... where did I mention conspiracies?
Simple example: Immigration. Dog whistling about Turkey (leave.eu), uncontrolled immigration (is it though), conflating refugees/EU immigrants... that is driving a conversation to go somewhere they want it to go.
Not: Hm is Immigration lowering wages? Good question. Let's do research. Oh. Actually it's a really complex picture. By then all the fear creation has already been done.
So you go from not complete baseless fair enough fears translatable into direct policies into a glut of underbelly vagueness.
And on immigration...turns out the UK attitudes are very positive ATM. Yet "the will of the people" is still in time at stuck at Farage and his posters.
JWestland
Except those in charge let "the people" say whatever they want them to say. We are all "the people". But somehow only when it suits.
And the UK press fact free fear mongering, how can you quell fears that are a fantasy?
We have to see what happens when parliament is back.
May's WA was also not the end and in a way just kicking the can down the road, which is another problem as technically a new parliament isn't bound by the previous one after a GE.
The wa may just pass this time if there are more votes, but we don't know yet what will happen. A GE may be most likely.