Reply To: More on Brexit
The inaccuracy of polls against actual votes is that many say what they think they should say and be PC about their responses. But actually make their choices differently.
I agree with Matt and when it came to who effected their happiness and sadness was for many Brexiteers it was and still is the presence of foreigners – the scapegoats.
Yes, it was also austerity.
I recall watching a news report after the result in one of the most economically devastated regions which overwhelmingly voted leave, the presenter taking a young unemployed guy who blamed migrants for no jobs around his town, looking at the new community centre, looking at the sites of new factories, looking at the new infrastructure…and pointing to all the accompanying signs where it was written in small letters, “funding by the EU”. The TV presenter then took the guy to the one of the very few Eastern European in the town (migrants usually go where there are jobs) and asked…is it his fault, are you blaming him for your unemployment?
The Remainers simply failed to show the reality to the myth that the UK was subsidizing the EU and not the other way around and that the Brussels was assisting the deprived regions much more than central government in London.