Donald Tusk

[chasetownbaggie]

The comments by Tusk was aimed at the snake oil salesmen not the suckers who bought the snake oil.

I really don't buy all the hype that 17M+ people flocked to follow Farage, Boris or Gove, or swooned over a figure on the
side of a bus. Of course some were worried about immigration and sovereignty, but I bet a great many were simply
protesting at the failure of politicians to listen, look or care. Politicians whether in London or Brussels are seen as self
serving and with little or no connect to the normal person in the street.

If Tusk and his cronies had listened to the voices calling for change, if Cameron had bothered to trouble them with
his voice for change, then we might be in a different place right now. Even now, politicians both side of the divide
are more interested in saving face than saving the day and unity. The chaos has not come about by 17m votes, it
has come about by a very few leaders who have shown anything but leadership, and have set about a collision of
ideas when compromise and sensible solutions were easier and less costly to everyone.

It didn't require 17m to flock to Farage, Boris or Gove. I agree with you that the reasons people voted to leave were wideranging, and in many cases, fully justified. But in the end it needed only a turnover of 700k voters to change the result and there's no doubt in my mind that the "promise" of £350m to the NHS and the immigration BS from UKIP was decisive. I know they're out there - quite apart from hearing them on the radio and TV, I've spoken to them.