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JohnJamesRambo | 3 years ago

Did they punch themselves in the face or was it Cambridge Analytica type meddling from groups with a vested interest in Brexit happening stomping them in the face with a boot?

From my brief reading about the matter it seems that the same villains showed up over there for that manipulation campaign.

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jfengel|3 years ago

Mostly column A, a little column B.

There's also a big chunk of column C: the leading opposition party did a terrible job of opposing it. There was a chunk of the Labour party, including its leader, who also favor Brexit, albeit a very different kind of Brexit from the Tories. For them, it's more about anti-globalism and anti-corporate-control.

That leader eventually resigned, but by that point the damage was done.

I can't predict what would have happened if the Labour party had chosen to unify on a pro-Europe platform, but they were soundly defeated. The Tory party won resoundingly, and they had run on a pro-Brexit platform.

There is always skullduggery, but it's really just something the UK did to itself.

DonaldFisk|3 years ago

This is not true. There were a small number Labour MPs who wanted to leave, including Gisela Stuart, Kate Hoey, and Graham Stringer, but by the time of the referendum, Jeremy Corbyn had long changed his mind, accepted we should remain in the EU, and campaigned for that: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/22/corbyn-fina...