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There are Three potential reasons for this:
1) People who voted remain are fundamentally different to people who voted Leave in terms of how they handle and responded to defeat.
This is either down to either Remain attracting significantly more emotive and invested supporters than Leave
or
2) Remain and Leave had the same levels of emotive and invested supporters, but Remain voters are somehow significantly less able to admit defeat, move on and support or at least not oppose or undermine the process moving forwards.
3) That essentially, Remain and Leave voters shared equal levels of emotive and invested supporters, neither of which were likely to just admit defeat, move on and support or at least not oppose or undermine things moving forwards.
Which ever side garnered the most votes during the referendum, it was highly unlikely that would be the end of it all.
The only difference between the sides and therefore the what would happen after the referendum is the fact that Leave has meant much more further actions to attempt to change from being a member of the EU to Leaving. Had Remain been successful in securing a greater number of votes, there would have been far less if any directly related processes and stages for Leavers to organise around and against.
Of course for poops and giggles it's fun to argue it's 1 or 2 to fit a narrative, but the reality is that 3 is the most rational and reasonable conclusion given the sheer numbers and emotions on both sides being demonstrated continually over the last 3yrs with no signs of ending any time soon.
No idea, I'm not the Prime Minster or even an MP, but I think that maybe I would have attempted to avoid organising something that would focus and highlight those divisions in society to the more extreme levels, like directly pitching them against each other in a competition for votes for example. |
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