Andy is not stupid. He’s a bright, entrepreneurial professional with his own young company and an eye on the future. He hasn’t mentioned immigration (yet) and doesn’t subscribe to some bogus nineteenth-century notion of English exceptionalism. He has – and this is crucial to understand – simply existed for years in a media-defined environment where the depiction of the overarching and negative influence of ‘EU laws’ went so unchallenged it became, for him and millions like him, a simple truth. Citing bendy bananas didn’t prove a lack of substantive evidence for his position, rather it proved
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