@ToruOkada What I remember from the day after the Brexit referendum: after a close vote approving Brexit, U.K. residents swamped Google with searches for 'What is BREXIT' and 'What is the EU'
@yadayadayada I clearly remember that as well. And all the stories of why people voted Lave. One stuck particularly because a woman voted Leave because her neighbour smoked in the garden which annoyed her. Another had car traffic problems on the day of the vote, so decided that must be them forriners he heard so much in the past week and voted Leave instead of Remain.
@yadayadayada And then, there was this woman, who publicly regretted her Leave vote the next because she wanted only to use it as a protest and never expected Leave to win.
@ToruOkada It all left me so downhearted at the time, especially with twats like Farage suddenly backtracking on everything they'd said during the campaign.
@ToruOkada it was a pretty poor campaign on both sides. What was George Osborne doing saying he would raise income tax the day after a 'Leave' vote?
@mortimer True that the fear-mongering by Cameron/Osborne was pathetic. Their mistake was to not make a positive case and underestimate the targeted Cambridge Analytica fear-mongering approach. The personalized Facebook ads of VoteLeave are something else.
Here is the video with Faisal Islam. Also, this was the beginning of the "you remoaners don't believe enough" because he was immediately accused to misrepresent the master plan (which, as it turned out, was different for each Leave voter).
https://news.sky.com/video/faisal-islam-struggles-with-leavers-explanation-there-is-no-brexit-plan-10325690