Brexit Thread

[Seamus Fermanagh]

I think most of the people voting didn't have the faintest idea what they were voting for or against.
Some people probably thought they were voting to give millions of pounds to the NHS, I wonder how they felt when they were told the money was going to farmers instead?

While your example seems a bit over the top, I have already noted my belief in the surprising degree of ignorance among most electorates, so I cannot deny that possibility here.

[Legs]

While your example seems a bit over the top, I have already noted my belief in the surprising degree of ignorance among most electorates, so I cannot deny that possibility here.

What's over the top? It was what the Brexit campaign were claiming they would do with the money sent to the EU. As soon as the vote was in they said it was not happening, then they said the money not going to the EU would have to go to the farmers because the agriculture sector was going to lose all its EU subsidies.
I suppose they said they was going to fund the NHS with the money purely for the sentimental and emotional draw it would have on some voters.
Is that a case of sentiment hitting reality and coming off a poor second as usual when it comes to actual policy?