• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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    1 day ago

    It’s a very good question to which I don’t know the answer!

    The lying version spread very well by word of mouth, and a constant bombardment of old/new/social media. People didn’t seem to care beyond “vote Brexit get our jobs back”. The factual version was easily dismissed as “elite media propaganda” - when the exact opposite would be likely nearer the truth.

    There’s other questions wrapped up in the same set of things - how is multimillionaire investment banker and former career Tory politician Nigel Farage able to present himself as “normal bloke”, “man of the people”, “underdog”, “not one of those elites”?