Again it’s not really a story is it? The remain campaign was poor and focused purely on negatives of leaving and not positives of remaining - and it’s obvious that short term impacts vs long term are you be considered
frankly her farm can go bust for all I care but I guess that’s not the discussion
The funny thing is the same arguments are used by sturgeon and many on here look at her favourably
We've heard all about this 'negative' campaign but the leave campaign was to change things. That's a much easier sell. The only defence is saying how it would be worse with that change - being negative about it. If they said that the regions would continue to benefit from EU grants etc or that the cheaper wages kept prices of things like food low then this was jumped upon as negative or unpatriotic and that the British govt could improve funding to the regions with more control and that less foreign workers would allow Brits to get jobs and improve wages.
Leave could say all sorts of stuff and be positive because they could claim it would be better than now. The 'sunlit uplands'. They could claim freedom for farmers and fishermen, less red tape for importers/exporters, more money to the NHS. All sounding very positive. But thus far all proving to not be true. The 'negative' stance is proving to be accurate. Even from the day after the vote the main protagonists like Farage and Rees-Mogg were rowing back on the benefits and people like Dyson started making plans to move into Europe.
It's easier to entice someone to leave the person they're with to be with you cos it would be some much better - you'd have fun and it'd be a non-stop party. Years later when you're sitting in front of the TV having both spent all day at work so you can pay the bills it's a much harder sell when someone else is giving them the eye and making the same promises of how much better things will be.
Let's say someone started a rejoin campaign now. That campaign could take the positive stance because it could claim the changes would be beneficial. Worker shortages reduced, import/export problems removed, markets to sell products or work in. Whereas those who still supported Brexit would have to take the negative stance, saying that rejoining would be much worse.
