Why the UK cannot see that Brexit is utterly, utterly stupid. (http...
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Why the UK cannot see that Brexit is utterly, utterly stupid.
How did Remain voters become effectively disenfranchised? Why is the lunacy of what this country is doing only apparent to foreigners? [...] What we have that foreigners do not is a public discourse shaped by a handful of newspaper proprietors who just happen to be intensely hostile to the EU. Partly through intimidation by that same press and their political allies, the BBC follows this discourse. This is where the “will of the people” came from. It was this press that puts rebel Conservative MPs on their front pages, and that uses language like saboteurs and traitors. It is intimidating MPs in order to influence the democratic process, but of course few in the media call it (...)