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Re:The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after vo... by zghst on Friday June 24, 2016 @12:30PM (#11971118)
The media is a big business owned by special interest and wealthy elites. Obviously all the scare tactics used in the media did not work on the voters.
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Re:The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after vo... by k__ on Friday June 24, 2016 @12:44PM (#11971281)
I think it was exactly the opposite.
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Re:The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after vo... by zghst on Friday June 24, 2016 @12:49PM (#11971336)
I'm curious, I'd like to hear more =)
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Re:The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after vo... by makomk on Friday June 24, 2016 @02:01PM (#11971991)
Our biggest newspapers, the Sun and the Daily Mail, have huge political influence here. They were both strongly pro-Brexit, as was the Telegraph. They've also been anti-EU for decades.
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Re:The British are Googling what the E.U. is, hours after vo... by k__ on Friday June 24, 2016 @02:08PM (#11972049)
That was my impression, thank you.
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