Re:Scotland to seek second independence referendum
by rwmj on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:33AM
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People were led on by millionaire politicians and billionaire newspaper owners who flat out lied during the referendum. Politicians have been blaming immigrants and "benefit scroungers" for problems which are really caused by austerity. It would be nice to have an informed demos who could look past all that, but we don't right now.
Re:Scotland to seek second independence referendum
by blibble on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:54AM
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come on, essentially the entire Western political structure was on the side of remain
they even shipped Obama over
Re:Scotland to seek second independence referendum
by ghaff on Monday March 13, 2017 @11:39AM
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That's because people are comforted that when a majority of people disagree with them and vote for outcomes they don't like it's obviously either because they were misled or manipulated (or they're racists).
That's short-hand of course for the "UK people's democratically expressed will".
FWIW I don't vote conservative, nor support Brexit; but we can't solely blame the elite cabals - as this sort of phrasing tends to do - the demos are complicit.