1 hour ago · Politics · hide · 0 comments

I could pull pretty much any random passage from a Boyle video and strike gold, but this one in particular caught my attention.The first story was told by the Leave campaign, who drove a large red bus around the UK with the words, "We send the UK £350 million a week. Let's fund our NHS instead."The pitch was that Britain was hemorrhaging money to Brussels, money that was being wasted, and that leaving would let the country reclaim its borders, slash bureaucracy, revitalize the health service, and, most importantly, bring back the bendy banana, which the EU had supposedly outlawed.This was promoted heavily by right-wing populists and, more surprisingly, by a smaller group of left-wing Euroskeptics who wanted to leave the EU not to deregulate the economy, but to regulate it far more aggressively than Brussels would ever allow.The two groups agreed on the destination and on absolutely nothing else. It's remarkable how often factions of the left ends up implicitly and often explicitly…

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