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Originally Posted by Liberty4eva

If the Brexiters mitigate their stated aims

I don't know if you've been keeping up with the UK news since last Friday (other than the basic "it was Brexit") but they basically already have gone back on most of the "big focus" promises. Or at least scaled them back to "more realistic" levels. "We said £350 million a week for the NHS but we actually meant just £350, that was a typo lol".

But yes one of those was immigration and major Brexit figures have already admitted that immigration levels are "unlikely to change significantly" (which means they won't at all).

Now... I get campaign promises having to change over time, as the world changes or things prove to be unworkable... But several of these announcements were made mere DAYS after the vote. That means they definitely knew before the vote that their promises on paper were straight up false. And they knew that's what people were voting on. But they waited until after they got their result to admit the flaws. That's a problem to me... That simply undermines democracy and turns it into a sham. These campaigns become purely about who can build the prettiest gingerbread house.

I agree that the EU is full of corruption and inefficiency and major problems but... These people described above are what we're trading it for. What is the point?