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The problem with using focus groups and attitudes “research” is that many opinions have already been tainted by populists like Johnson & Farage and blanks like Starmer and the endless scapegoating, demonising and dehumanising of various groups - migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, benefits claimants, the unemployed and others - by the gutter press and some of the “serious” press. These bad actors have already framed the terms and language of the debate and some people adopt this framing.

Did 53% of English people (whose votes overwhelmed those of Scotland and NI) in, 2010 or ‘12 say, really consider Brexit to be the most effective answer to the question of what concerned them most about life in the UK?

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