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Thread #164605   Message #3957622
Posted By: DMcG
20-Oct-18 - 06:44 PM
Thread Name: Brexit #2
Subject: RE: Brexit #2
Where does this leave the "will of the people" sham I wonder?

With regret, I think it leaves things completely unchanged. It will be argued, with some justification, that it was made up almost entirely of people who voted Remain in the first place, and we already knew there were millions of those. There were some 160 coaches from all over the country: if we said 50 in each, that still makes the whole thing largely Londoners, which we knew was remain in the first place ... The arguments for ignoring it will be widespread.

However, since there was a march it is essential it was large. Farage's event in Harrogate pro-Brexit mustered 1,200. Even a figure much larger than that but just a smidgen less than the 100,000 originally suggested would be used to make the argument that the media and a few fanatics (on Mudcat!) care, but the ordinary person doesn't.