Leave wasn’t an alternate economic or political model. It was a blank canvas which people could project their hopes, aspirations and frustrations onto. This was the only way you could get voters from the shires to vote with those from post-industrial towns in the north. It was a fantasy land of universal expectation.
Ian Dunt, Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now?: Everything You Need to Know about Britain's Divorce from Europe
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