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My opinion is that the Brexit vote was a protest vote (much like Trump). People are fed up with the perceived/actual extent of immigration and those people voted for Brexit. The parties campaigning either used immigration to their advantage or subtly hid the notion of it behind their policies. People may agree with Farage to a point but wouldn’t vote for him, so they picked the next best option - Conservative. If you review pre-Brexit Conservative policy/ manifesto, they undertook to sort out immigration. They didn’t and he is where we have ended up.
No one knows what the affect of Brexit will be in the long term, so far, it doesn’t look great. Voters have been manipulated by numerous things and Boris plods on. Cameron got out to leave everyone to it - a good strategy but I don’t blame him that much, the populace voted and the unexpected result was this mess.
If the conservatives had kept their promises, I don’t believe that Brexit would have been an issue never mind something for a referendum.
Just to be clear - I’m anti-Brexit but I can see how it happened.
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But we're the only ones who that's an issue for, so why would it be reasonable for the other 27 member states to either make an exception for us or change how they work to enable our bigots to froth about something else for a change?
I tend to think that this "why wouldn't they be more flexible" thing is just British exceptionalism.