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MPs have voted in favour of the Government's timetable to trigger Article 50 by March


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Old 08-12-2016, 23:29
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It has been partly caused by there being virtually zero clarification on what people were voting for last June. People voted for Leave without having a clue whether this meant the UK would end up inside or outside the Single Market / EEA etc.
The options on the ballot paper were

1- Stay in the EU
2- Leave the EU.

There was no 3rd option of "Leave the EU, but stay in a bit keeping all the things you might have voted leave for".
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Old 08-12-2016, 23:36
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The options on the ballot paper were

1- Stay in the EU
2- Leave the EU.

There was no 3rd option of "Leave the EU, but stay in a bit keeping all the things you might have voted leave for".
Nor was there an option of "Leave EFTA", which we helped found in 1960 as an alternative to the EU.
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Old 08-12-2016, 23:52
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To clarify, it was 70% of Express readers voted Leave, 70% of Sun readers also voted Leave etc.
So the figures have been completey misrepresented. The original poster saying that most of the people who voted leave read the Express and Mail.

Daily Express average readership is 1,052,666. 70% of that is 736,866
Daily Mail average readership is 4,037,666. 60% of that is 2,422,599
Together that is 3,159,465 readers of these papers who voted for Brexit

The total Brexit vote was 17,410,742 votes.

So the total of leave voters who use either the Daily Express or Daily Mail as their main source of news is 18.14 %
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