The problem is, the majority of brexiteers haven’t been anywhere near a University so don’t understand how research is conducted. It’s not something they comprehend so resort to conspiracy instead.
The stats illustrated below are rather telling.
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Oh dear, next youll be calling them mouth breathers and knuckle draggers next.
Its sad that some feel that those who didnt go to university are universally stupid, primarily on the basis that they disagree with how they voted..
I never went to uni from school, there was no expectation that i would, nor did 99% of my peers at the local comp. At that time c.
14% of people went to uni, proportionally it would have been those from public/grammar schools as opposed to local comps i suspect.
It is therefore not necessarily education that predicated voting for Brexit but maturity, with those less mature voting remain as they knew nothing else and voted for the status quo.
I did spend some time looking at accession polls across the eu, i neither have the time or the inclination to do so again, but what was clear is that in the majority of votes, across all EU countries, that the votes to join were close, and did not involve a majority of the eligible populations voting for in.
Those who whine about the leave vote are often silent about welsh independence which had a much smaller margin than the leave vote, and yet we didn't find a signficnat proportion of parliament seeking to obstruct 'Welsh independence' on the basis that it wasn't fair.
In closing i would observe there are some idiots and bigots who voted leave, but there are frankly some who voted remain too.