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Brexit: Vote Leave broke law says Electoral Commission
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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 128983" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>I'm one of the people who is unhappy with the outcome of the referendum, but what I'm most unhappy about is the amount of misleading "information" that was circulated leading up to the vote. There was misinformation on both sides, which is completely unacceptable, but the Leave campaign in particular was downright dishonest in their successful attempts to encourage undecided voters to come down on their side.</p><p></p><p>In particular, I resent the way the Leave campaign tapped into and exploited xenophobia and racism with every lie they presented to votes as fact. They completely ignored the implications of leaving the EU in mattes such as legislation, economy or human rights. Instead, they saturated people with misinformation about immigration. I was getting regular mail from various campaigns and parties trying to influence voters to leaving the EU. This included a flyer warning voters that Turkey wanted to join the EU (something it failed to mention Turkey has been unsuccessfully trying to do for the past thirty years), complete with fear-mongering maps showing the proximity of Turkey to Syria.</p><p></p><p>The whole thing culminated in Nigel Farage's infamous "Breaking Point" poster, which took a picture of people in Syria leaving everything they know because of war and strongly implied they were queuing to enter the UK.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3f510b25581c993fae11fe42817a9c6d3780f376/0_305_5049_3029/master/5049.jpg?w=700&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=bde28b168c655fada1eec5f1e0b9ecae" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>An image, by the way, that was uncannily reminiscent. Of anti-Semitic images used in Nazi propaganda:</p><p></p><p><img src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClEty7mWMAQ960g.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I don't believe it's a coincidence that within hours of the poster being unveiled, Jo Cox was murdered - shot and stabbed to death while holding a surgery in her constituency by someone who screamed "Britain First". For no other reason than she had chosen to support the Remain campaign.</p><p></p><p>So successfully misleading was their campaign that I believe a large percentage of voters actually believed that the <em><u>entire reason</u></em> for the referendum was to vote on free movement.</p><p></p><p>It could be argued that the people who voted Leave without doing their homework deserved all they got when - among other consequences - the pound became almost worthless overnight. But did the half of the country that voted remain? Or the people who were too young to vote who will have to live with this mess for a long time?</p><p></p><p>So yes. The vote has happened. The decision is made. I'm not happy but I've accepted it.</p><p></p><p>I will, however, take some consolation in the knowledge that at least one part of their deliberate lack of transparency is being punished.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 128983, member: 23"] I'm one of the people who is unhappy with the outcome of the referendum, but what I'm most unhappy about is the amount of misleading "information" that was circulated leading up to the vote. There was misinformation on both sides, which is completely unacceptable, but the Leave campaign in particular was downright dishonest in their successful attempts to encourage undecided voters to come down on their side. In particular, I resent the way the Leave campaign tapped into and exploited xenophobia and racism with every lie they presented to votes as fact. They completely ignored the implications of leaving the EU in mattes such as legislation, economy or human rights. Instead, they saturated people with misinformation about immigration. I was getting regular mail from various campaigns and parties trying to influence voters to leaving the EU. This included a flyer warning voters that Turkey wanted to join the EU (something it failed to mention Turkey has been unsuccessfully trying to do for the past thirty years), complete with fear-mongering maps showing the proximity of Turkey to Syria. The whole thing culminated in Nigel Farage's infamous "Breaking Point" poster, which took a picture of people in Syria leaving everything they know because of war and strongly implied they were queuing to enter the UK. [IMG]https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3f510b25581c993fae11fe42817a9c6d3780f376/0_305_5049_3029/master/5049.jpg?w=700&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=bde28b168c655fada1eec5f1e0b9ecae[/IMG] An image, by the way, that was uncannily reminiscent. Of anti-Semitic images used in Nazi propaganda: [IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClEty7mWMAQ960g.jpg[/IMG] I don't believe it's a coincidence that within hours of the poster being unveiled, Jo Cox was murdered - shot and stabbed to death while holding a surgery in her constituency by someone who screamed "Britain First". For no other reason than she had chosen to support the Remain campaign. So successfully misleading was their campaign that I believe a large percentage of voters actually believed that the [I][U]entire reason[/U][/I] for the referendum was to vote on free movement. It could be argued that the people who voted Leave without doing their homework deserved all they got when - among other consequences - the pound became almost worthless overnight. But did the half of the country that voted remain? Or the people who were too young to vote who will have to live with this mess for a long time? So yes. The vote has happened. The decision is made. I'm not happy but I've accepted it. I will, however, take some consolation in the knowledge that at least one part of their deliberate lack of transparency is being punished. [/QUOTE]
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