[St Charles Owl]

Anyone who thinks the uks problems, re immigration and low wages is going to be solved by leaving the EU is just thick. And sorry those were the main reasons given.

If the hundreds of extra millions for the NHS a month turn up I might relent on that. But the **** have already admitted they lied on that score.

I know a lot of people who voted to leave, and very few used these issues as the main reason.  I said at the time, the problem with the EU and the Remain campaign was that they were pretty much unable to give any positive reasons why voters should have voted to remain and they spent an awful amount of air time refuting the claims being made by the other side, which in the end seemed to mean the leave campaigns message stayed at the forefront of peoples minds and the Remain campaigns true message got lost.

What were their reasons then SCO ? The polls showed the reasons I gave as being the main drive behind brexit.

I keep coming back to this,but even if the benefits of staying in the EU were not presented well then the alternative was based on a pack of lies.

Already the pound is down against just about everything,inflation is rising and manufacturers facing higher prices. Remember the UK is primarily a service industry these days and one heavily reliant on imports particularly food.

Rocky times ahead.

I know a few people, educated ones as well, who distinctly felt that we could prosper more economically as a country on our own. I get what you are saying regarding the polls but the polls also predicted a Remain win!! I am not saying anyone is right, I just think the election headlines by the two side and the media surrounded the immigration and NHS issues but I am not convinced that is all people voted on.

As I said earlier, I agree with you that the positives of EU membership were poorly presented and were lost in the war of words over other fairly irrelevant issues, and yes a pack of lies is what was generally given to the masses and the media lapped it up instead of doing their job and analyzing the points and pointing out the lies!! The pound was always going to suffer, not fully convinced the economy in the medium term will necessarily follow suit, but this is uncharted water we are in, so no one really knows.