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LeftishBrit

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6. While they may have contributed to the anti-EU propaganda machine...
Sun Oct 8, 2017, 02:49 AM
Oct 2017

they could not have hacked the actual vote. The UK uses paper ballots in elections. Long may it continue to do so.

What can be justifiably said is that no other democratic country, to my knowledge, would accept 52% of voters and 50% of constituent states/countries as a mandate for constitutional change. And Nigel Farage actually said before the referendum that a 52 to 48 vote to Remain would be 'unfinished business by a long way'. He really did use those very numbers!

Also the two groups most affected by the vote - British citizens who have lived for 15 years or more in other EU countries, and EU citizens living in the UK - were denied the vote in this referendum, even though Commonwealth citizens living in the UK did have a vote.

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