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People who voted for Brexit didnt vote because of GDP and Investments

> People who voted for Brexit didnt vote because of GDP and Investments.

Nevertheless they got the opposite of what they voted for, besides lower GDP and investments.

And the ones who tipped the scale are already dead based on voting by age cohort. Like ordering dinner and dipping out before they’ve served the meal.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36616028

How do you decide which were the 2% that tipped the scale? Could have been the 18-22 years old too, no? Could have been any cohort, it’s a mathematical fallacy to pretend otherwise I feel.

This has been the sentiment at the time, I suppose coming from the percentages in the cohorts:

> 64% of over-65s voted for Brexit - compared with 71% of under-25s who voted Remain

Source and more context: "Vince Cable: Young 'shafted' over Brexit" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-40842017

Every democratic country gets a government they deserve

Not really? There are multiple forms of democratic systems. The one utilised by the UK doesn’t appear to be very good, producing sub par results.

Well if your definition of “what a democratic country deserves” is “their current government”, then yes, but it does feel a little circular.

If not, how do you define what a democratic country “deserves”?

Well, yes. But then again the 'Take Back Control' campaign had those UKIP buses saying "We send the EU £350 million a week, let's fund our NHS instead". An average person is a bit too removed from the GDP/investments conversations anyway.

And their representatives didn't want to leave so decided to drag their feez and do a shit job of it anyway. I didn't vote either way but I expect those paid to represent us to actually do it.

Some did. Economic Euroscepticism is far older than the EU. The idea that the UK can return to the productivity of the Victorian industrial era, with WW2 bravado.

Of course it's tosh, and it unravels as soon as the first horse spooks, but in the run up to the referendum people were making all sorts of stupid claims about what we'd be able to have. Remember Soft Brexit? The idea that the EU would give us favourable terms when we were in no position to negotiate? Absolute madness.

Haha, they mostly had no investment and didn't contribute to GDP.

This is deepening as people with either are now leaving in droves...

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