Journalists and politicians alike have argued for overturning or neutering the referendum result because Leavers didn’t have all the facts, had been misled by their politicians, and “didn’t know what they were voting for”—allegations that could probably be made about most electorates in the world. Multiple parliamentarians have asserted knowingly that “no one voted to be poorer!”—although when polled in 2017, over 60 percent of Leave voters were willing to accept “significant damage” to the British economy in return for political independence; nearly 40 percent would even accept losing their
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