[BerislavLopac]

> UK voted to leave EU

It did not. A minority of voters voted "yes" in an advisory non-binding referendum. But this result was milked for propaganda purposes to drag the country into a downward spiral, which has been the plan all along.

[cassianoleal]

> an advisory non-binding referendum

> this result was milked for propaganda purposes

It amazes me how this is almost never said when arguments of the type "the public has spoken", etc. appear. Whenever I bring those up, I tend to get blank stares.

[rich_sasha]

I mean, a small majority of those who turned up voted to leave, on unspecified terms.

It was crazy if you ask me but it's hard to argue it was against public sentiment.

[al_mandi]

Who was behind that plan?

[BerislavLopac]

A loose association of actors with invested interest in destroying UK and EU, with differing priorities:

    * Disaster capitalists like Jacob Rees-Mogg, who extract money from the economies being destroyed.
    * Media moguls like Rupert Murdoch, with the goal to control who is in power.
    * Corrupt politicians like Boris Johnson, who want to live large while passing taxpayers' money to their allies.
    * Oil/gas industry, for reasons that are pretty clear to everyone by now.
    * Russian government and its paid agents like Aaron Banks, who want to see EU, UK and other western powers as weak as possible.
    * Hi-tech companies like Cambridge Analytica, Palantir and Facebook, who receive huge sums from the above groups to subtly manipulate public opinion and directly affect elections.

Note that right-wing public is not on the list - there is nothing political in any of the groups' motivations (except, arguably, Russia). It's simply that they have figured out that the conservative voters are easiest to manipulate, and they continue to influence other political groups as well. In the UK they have directly manipulated Labour into electing Corbyn for leader (supposedly hoping that his extreme political position and leadership incompetence will cause the chaos; until they realised that the same result can be achieved far more easily with Johnson); in Germany they have been funding the Green party for its extreme stance on nuclear energy; and so on.