Leave did use the 'Make America Great Again' strategy.
You might have noticed the heavy use of Boris turning into Churchill. There were also less obvious harking back to WWII glories in several adverts and the heavy use of the image of Churchill himself as well as Bevin.
There was a hell of a lot of use of the 'flag waving' propaganda with Union Jacks everywhere in their promotion.
If you disagree with that, then that's even more worrying because it means its so subconscious that you missed it being there.
It was. It was deliberate. The propaganda on display was text book. It was of a high standard.
I did point it out at the time, which when it was spelled out shocked some (and annoyed because they didn't like it being laid out quite so bluntly that this was designed to dupe people).
As for organised Leave strategies and plans; whilst I appreciate it is the recess, every single thing I've seen, when you poke it even a tiny bit with a stick to see if it holds up as a credible idea it instantly falls apart as more holey than a sieve.
This really isn't good enough. We need to have more than this even over the summer.
I am fed up of the narrative that Remain voters want Brexit to fall. That's nonsense. We are stuck with this shower of shit and somehow we have to make the best of it, so being proven wrong about how much of a fucking disaster it is would suit me just fine. I would happily eat my words if someone can come up with something workable, that answers many of the concerns and criticisms of the EU but also ensures the best interests of our country's future.
This is the problem though, the sheer lack of understanding of what the EU does EVEN NOW. And the sheer lack of understanding of what Westminster does and the limits of power of government. And who is responsible for what - and more importantly who is responsible for poor policy and poor living standards for many. A lack of understanding that I don't blame and think leave voters are responsible for - I don't think they are stupid. Its not their job to understand it.
Its the Gisele Stuarts, Boris Johnsons, David Davies, Liam Foxs et al who have ALL since the Brexit vote come out with comments of such staggering stupidity and ignorance of what they were trying to achieve that I am in total disbelief. People dealing with trade deals and EU legislation who have been shown up to not understand the workings of that in any detail or level at all. Davies was supposed to be the guy in the Conservatives MPs with the best knowledge and had the best ideas and strategy for Brexit and it took about a week for it to come out he didn't understand basic terms never mind complex EU legislation.
Only a couple of people in the entire House of Commons seemed to show that understanding. I can name two; Rory Stewart (Tory who I bet most of you haven't even heard of) who talked about the different between political will and political capacity in an after dinner speech which received a paragraph in the press and Nick Clegg who wrote a prophetic newspaper article published on the Wednesday before the referendum (and sounded a lot like a post I wrote on MN the previous Thursday - grrrr) which talked about power vacuums and a lack of plan. I note here that Nick Clegg has experience as a trade negotiator and working as an MEP and Rory Stewart has experience with the Foreign Office trying to repair the power vacuums that emerged in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Davies, Fox and Johnson are already in danger of looking like work experience kids in comparison. Fox has even deleted press releases as they are incorrect FFS and Fox and Johnson have already got into a pissing contest over turf.
Its fucking shocking and a national bloody disgrace that they have said publically said such naively dumb things. The EU must be rubbing their hands in delight at our stupidity.
The sooner Liam Fox get the sack the better. I have no doubt it WILL happen too. He is a fucking liability.
As for Davies and Johnson... I feel for Johnson a bit as he had a shocking first week in office due to other matters and he has to deal with a man who is an even bigger dick than himself in Fox. Davies I think has grasped the depth of the problem now, but seems to be quietly panicking, and has instituted daft recruitment which bars anyone with EU experience for fear they somehow might be biased and try and sabotage Brexit.
The pair of them need to step their game up in the first two weeks of term, or there will be hell to pay. They have to hit the ground running come September, yet the noises leaking out give quite the opposite impression.
To be perfectly blunt about it, they need to be winning the support and admiration of Remainers like me, because whilst I'm a tough crowd, the EU itself is going to be a hell of a worse one. I, at least, have a vested interest in Brexit being good for the UK.
It makes me just put my head in my hands when people go on about remainers seeking to sabotage their future here. Indeed, it goes back to this whole brainwashed propaganda of flag waving that went on during the referendum and subconsciously labelled Remainers as somehow unpatriotic...
You know that whole 'Make Britain Great Again' thing that never happened... Yeah right.
Trump's campaign is a carbon copy of Leave, after putting it on the typical American steroids. They've even actively advised Trump - NOT the other way around.