The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #164605 Message #3972648
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
21-Jan-19 - 12:33 PM
Thread Name: Brexit #2
Subject: RE: Brexit #2
We keep on getting stuff about how 17.4million voted for Brexit, with this being interpreted as meaning they all voted for an end to freedom of movement, and for leaving the single market and the custome union etc. But there is no evidence whatsoever about that. The priority for some would have been quite other matters - to end limits on state aid or nationalisation, or on issues about fishing rights, for example. The only thing we know that all 17.4 voted about was the bare words of the question. The other stuff just wasn't on the voting paper.
And of course the number of new voters on the electoral roll is several times the size of the narrow margin of victory.