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Thread #164605   Message #3972440
Posted By: Backwoodsman
20-Jan-19 - 01:47 PM
Thread Name: Brexit #2
Subject: RE: Brexit #2
Liam Fox lying bare-faced again on Marr this morning - claimed that "The British public want Brexit to happen" which, of course is untrue.

What is true is that a very small majority of those that voted in 2016 - which, at 17 million is a small minority of 'the British public', who number 65 million - expressed a wish to leave at that time. What is also true is that nobody knows what 'the British public', or even the small majority of voters who voted Leave back then, want now, because they haven't been asked.

It's not accidental that Fox and his ilk use expressions like "The British public want...", even though they know that it's untrue - they use deliberate exaggerations of that kind in an attempt to lend legitimacy and weight to the Leave At All Costs argument they put forward. More of the dishonesty and deceit they employed during the Referendum campaign of course.

So far during the appalling donkey's breakfast that May and her bunch of incompetents have made of the BrexShit process, I've been very much against delaying A50 and having a 'People's Vote' but, with Parliament deadlocked, and May paralysed and in meltdown, I'm beginning to think it's the only way forward.