There's a lot of talk about people that don't have a voice. Well now they've spoken, yet they don't have the first clue what they've actually said.
Are these people at fault for being ill-informed? To a certain extent yes they are, everyone has a responsibility to make some effort to inform themselves about decisions they are about to make. But they have also been on the receiving end of a barrage of misinformation. This misinformation has not only been during the referendum campaign, if it had been there's a chance some of them would have spotted the nonsense being spoken.
Maybe some of them did spot the nonsense but thought they'd make a protest, however, the misinformation that must have had the biggest effect of all has been the daily indoctrination by the likes of the Murdoch and other owners of the wealthy non-UK tax-paying owner press. For almost as long as the UK has been a member of the EU these people have been peddling their bullshit stories laying down the foundations for the brexit campaigners to build their castles made of sand.
This isn't a new phenomenon of an underclass of the ignored, they've been there all along, it is systemic. Unfortunately nobody over the last thirty odd years has managed to successfully address the issue, an issue that has many roots in the government induced decline of industry of the 1980's. Whatever happens next in the EU game there has to be some move to resolve the problems of the voiceless, and there has to be another move to deal with the propaganda voice of the press.
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