The public's relationship with the EU has been tainted by 30 odd year's worth of lies in the right wing press, which have then been used shamelessly by the proponents of Brexit to push their agenda. Part of the reason for the shocking public ignorance of the EU and its benefits is because the British Press and its billionaire owners have been so anti-EU.
Finally we agree on something, even two things
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There's no doubt that the people have been screwed over and taken for granted, years of Tory austerity has crippled the UK and it's no surprise whatsoever that many people voted to change the status quo and I absolutely don't blame them for that. There surely has to be something wrong when, in one of the richest countries in the world, low paid workers are having to use food banks, tens of thousands are forced to work on zero hours contracts and a banker gets paid almost 100 times more than a nurse.
The thing I really can't understand though is how the very people responsible for inflicting this on people have managed to persuade a sizeable number of the population that is it's not their fault they're suffering but the fault of the EU and foreigners. How is it that people like Jacob Rees-Mogg, Boris Johnson, Lord Digby-Jones, and all of the other titled and extremely wealthy individuals, have persuaded people that they aren't part of the problem when they are the very "elite" they claim to be standing against. I'm genuinely curious
@Nostalgic what has made you think that these people have your best interests at heart and why you think a bunch of wealthy, non-dom, tax-dodgers will provide the solution?
I'm here making the case for remaining, not because I think the EU is some glorious institution without fault, but because I think you are being hoodwinked, I think you and people like you who voted Leave will suffer because of the lies you've been told because it isn't the EU or the foreigners who are making life miserable for millions in the UK, it's the very people pushing hardest for Brexit, the tax dodgers who don't want the EU tax laws tightened and the disaster capitalists who will make further millions from your misery. Who will you rail against when the British economy has been destroyed by an irreversible decision that was bought by a foreign power and pushed by the extreme right? I fear you and millions of others will find out too late and then I fear what might happen next