“I still don't understand why the UK left. “
Party because there was a significant proportion of the population who were suffering economically from the effects of a decade of Tory austerity, and instead of laying the blame where it belongs, they instead listened to the demagogues and blamed the “other”.
The “other” included immigrants, especially immigrants of color, experts who actually know what they are talking about and the so-called Metropolitan elites whom they bitterly resent.
At the same time the Russian government backed UK based traitors like Aaron Banks who at their behest channeled huge amounts of Russian money into highly targeted social media campaigns through Cambridge Analytica using illegally acquired data.
Sound familiar at all?
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the
American public."
H. L. Mencken
"It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
Anon
