Let's just clear a couple of things up about Farage "speaking for the majority." First, he most definitely isn't. 52% of the poll is not 52% of the country. The figure is 52% of 72%, a considerable minority of the people eligible to vote. You have no right to include even a single one of all the rest Second, he got hordes of people onside by cynically pandering to their lowest, most detestable racist instincts, as did Boris and Gove. "Take back control" my arse. No-one ever suggested "taking back control" from Osborne and Cameron, who got 24% of the electorate last time out. No-one has suggested "taking back control" from shitbags like Philip Green who has wiped out thousands of people's pension prospects. No one suggests "taking back control" from multinational oil and energy companies who rip us off time and again in the service of "shareholders" who never lift a finger except to fill in their paying-in slips when the dividend arrives. No-one suggests "taking back control" from the yanks, who we must please all the time and never even think of demurring from their foreign policy decisions, no matter how rotten (even Maggie let them put nuclear warheads on our soil). Finally, as for Farage himself, this great spokesman for the people, he has tried to get elected as an MP seven times and failed to get elected seven times. That's how much we love him. We got this referendum because that idiot Cameron wrongly thought that Farage was going to nick dozens of his seats, because he couldn't stand up to the right-wing Hawks in his party and because he was sure he was going to win. We now know what a bloody stupid, Etonian, Bullingdon, pig-abusing, posh-boy clown he really is.
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