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Originally Posted by jfman
It’s not a sidestep of the question. Society is fractured. People in working class towns and villages have literally nothing in common with the London financial bubble.
For many they have literally no investment in the success, or otherwise, of the wider economy because they won’t (or at least believe they won’t) see it.
The referendum won’t solve people’s problems either way, but it’ll solve politicians problems.
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The people you seem so concerned about are the same ones who carried the Leave victory in 2016, whereas the ones who have never given up wailing about Brexit are the ones who live in a bubble where cheap wine and long weekends on the continent are perceived to be at risk.
Granted here in Scotland the political dynamic is somewhat different, but that’s because the natural Leave support base in the central belt is still in thrall to the SNP, which is still clinging to the bizarre, contradictory ideas that Brexit will be a disaster for Scotland whilst Scexit would somehow bring about nirvana.
Regardless, a second referendum campaign would solve nothing. In the event of a further Leave victory we would have all the same accusations of lies and misrepresentation as we have had since 2016. The problem has never been a faulty or illegitimate campaign in 2016; the problem has only and ever been the disconnect between our overwhelmingly Remain political class (and the commentariat that hangs on its coat tails), and the clear majority of the population which is for Leave, most especially in those parts of the country that don’t get to experience the prosperity they are assured the EU has brought about.