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Agreed Mock.

Because Cameron (in the same way May did with her recent botched General Election debacle) had people so convinced and complacent in their assumption that a 'Remain' result was a foregone conclusion the Press did indeed massively neglect to properly clarify the reasons why staying in the EU was soimportant for the UK and just how detrimental Leaving the EU would be for us.

If there is one sentence that explains the referendum result it’s this one (from the website of the Advertising Standards Agency). ''For reasons of freedom of speech, we do not have remit over non-broadcast ads where the purpose of the ad is to persuade voters in a local, national or international electoral referendum''. In other words, political advertising is exempt from the regulation that would otherwise bar false claims and outrageous promises. You can’t claim that a herbal diet drink will make customers thinner, but you can (falsely) claim that £350m a week will go to the NHS instead of the European Union with the knowledge that by the time this claim is exposed as an utter and total LIE it will have already served its purpose and that nobody can be held accountable for knowingly lying.

It was noticeable how quickly the twin planks of the Leave campaign – extra money for the health service, and the implicit promise to cut immigration by ''taking back control'' of our borders – fell apart. On Good Morning Britain just hours after the result was declared, Nigel Farage decried the NHS pledge as a ''mistake'' . Devastatingly, for our Country and its future, it's a ''mistake'' with almost unimaginably massive negative implications for the future of the UK.

I still believe that an issue as massively important as leaving or staying in the EU with Nation destroying implications should have had at least two seperate vote no less than 6 months apart (preferably a year apart)to get a better informed result and i cannot see why anyone who truly wanted the best for our Country would want it any other way.

The result was so relatively narrow that i believe that had even something as simple as the debunking of the 'facts/lies' that were spread by UKIP happened before the vote (which were clearly fraudulent in their use) we would have had a different result. Even if two votes had ended up with a 'Leave' result at least there wouldn't be any doubt then about the legitimacy of the result.

If this all goes ahead (as it appears it will) when the full damage starts to become glaringly apparent it'll be far too late to do anything about it. It'll be our oldest and most needy people who'll probably suffer first and all of those shouters who are so vocal about Leaving the EU now will become apparent by their sudden silence as they slope back off into the shadows shrugging their shoulders and looking for a new ''Left'' excuse to blame for their mess.