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[–] HyperCuriousMe [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

It's complex but basically it came down to politics vs economics. Obviously you understand the leave position, but the remain position was that we should stay so the UK wouldn't damage it's economy and house prices. It went a bit further than that, suggesting that the EU was part of a beautiful ideal world of living together in peace and harmony, so the propaganda line was sold hard to the masses. Anyone who disagreed with the EU was a racist bigot who should have died a long time ago (old people) and the young wanted to embrace their global slavery because that represented, to them, the triumph of Love over Hate. The level of brainwashing in incredible, but thankfully it failed.

It's surreal. We are on the very edge of an Orwellian disaster, however, and all credit to them, the British public voted out. It was a close run thing, but it looks like the end of the EU is now in sight. This vote has brought attention to the failings of the EU. It has legitimised the problems of the EU across the continent. Until this vote, any criticism of open-borders was met with accusations that one was a far right extremist. All this has now come unstuck.