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@iankenway I'm not sure a casual survey outweighs an official national vote. While that **may** be true it is hardly a lie to cite the sentiments on a national vote, though it is a good reason to encourage a revote.
Thanks for your response which was appreciated. However, I would like to make a few clarifying comments.
First, ‘What UK Thinks’ is provided by the long-established National Centre for Social Research. It has tracked British attitudes to the EU since February 2012 using 75 YouGov polls. This most certainly is not a ‘casual survey’. See:
Secondly, the EU Referendum in June 2016 was both flawed in its design and subject to fraud in its execution. In the case of the former, the franchise was too narrow as many UK citizens living in the EU were unable to vote and the Scottish Independence Referendum in 2014 had set a precedent for the voting age to be lowered to 16. In the case of the latter, both Vote Leave and Leave.EU significantly spent over the legal limit in their campaigning and have been non-punitively fined. Moreover, there is now a substantial body of evidence that voters were provided with seriously misleading information courtesy of the obfuscatory placement policies of Cambridge Analytica and Facebook.
Thirdly, the word ‘lie’ includes the idea of dissimulation. Both the Conservative and Labour leadership are engaging in that deceit. The UK has absolutely no future unless it can move on from that dissimulation that has blighted its recent politics.
@iankenway I am not disagreeing with your assertion that the original vote was flawed. There are many reasons to criticize it.
But to call someone a liar for making an assertion over a public vote because of a not-so-casual poll is an unfair accusation all the same.
