nigelswift wrote: Exactly, Remain parties clearly won (boo to them for not having a common standard) yet the Beebs lead headline is "Clear win for Brexit Party".
Some talk of Labour shifting now though ....
I'm about as anti-brexit as it gets, but I've seen this "Remain (parties) won" thing on social media today and it's just not true.
Based on this BBC-sourced chart that was going round on twitter under the "REMAIN WON!!!" banner...
Clearly anti-brexit parties (Green, Lib Dem, Plaid, SNP, Change UK) got 40.4%
The Brexit Party got 34.9%
The tories (who are clearly a pro-brexit party) got 9.1%.
That means it was 44% Vs 40.4% in favour of Brexit.
And you simply cannot assume Labour's 14.1% was an anti-brexit vote (much as I wish we could). There's just no way of knowing how many of those Labour voters would turn out for "remain" in another referendum. I don't think Labour's equivocation is doing anyone any good at all, but that's where they are, and counting a Labour vote as a Remain vote isn't justifiable right now (IMO).
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