Would people who voted leave believe Boris if he told the truth about Brexit ?

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I am curious about this, if he sat down and cancelled all the NDA's and basically spilled the beans, would the leave voting section of the UK believe what he said ? Or are we now past that point ?

I wouldn't believe him if he told me his surname was Johnson. The man's a congenital liar.

Ah you know the bit about his surname ? well ........

I think Johnson is his stage name ?

What's his real name? Alexander Boris de Pfiffel Johnson? Or some such. Man of the people my arse.

No they wouldn’t - because it would mean admitting they had been mislead. The backfire effect means that the more evidence you provide as to why something is a bad idea, the more they will double down.

The people I know who voted Leave jumped off that bus a long time ago (they were mostly protest voters or vague "yeah, I wouldn't mind leaving sometime in the next ten years if we can come up with a good arrangement" types). I don't think anyone who is currently in favour of No Deal will ever change their mind. It's a cult. If Johnson came out against it, they'd decide he was a secret Remoaner traitor.

I saw some Leave voters interviewed today on my local news and they were incoherent.

I'm sick of being polite about it.

They believe their own Facebook and tabloid manufactured xenophobia. Without necessarily being able to discuss it beyond 'X'.

I hope they look forward to paying their own pensions because there will be no other fucker working in the UK to do it for them.

@MrsTerryPratchett i know right! I watched an interview with his father who casually said with laughter ( but deadly seriously) he didn't believe in bringing children up himself and left it up to the boarding schools 🤷‍♀️ when asked what BJ was like as a child.

@DullPortraits I'd ask for my money back from the school.

Johnson is his real name. Boris isn't his first name but is on his birth certificate. Wikipedia explains how Johnson became the family surname. Stanley is the PM's father.

Stanley Johnson was born in 1940 in Penzance, Cornwall, the son of Osman Kemal (later Wilfred Johnson) and Irene Williams (daughter of Stanley F. Williams of Bromley, Kent, and Marie Louise von Pfeffel).[3][4] His paternal grandfather, Ali Kemal, one of the last interior ministers of the Ottoman Empire government, was assassinated in 1922 during the Turkish War of Independence. Stanley's father was born in 1909 in Bournemouth, in Hampshire, and his birth was registered as Osman Wilfred Kemal.[5] Osman's Anglo-Swiss mother Winifred Brun died shortly after giving birth.[6] Ali Kemal returned to Turkey in 1912, whereafter Osman Wilfred and his sister Selma were brought up by their English grandmother, Margaret Brun, and took her maiden name, Johnson, Stanley's father therefore becoming simply Wilfred Johnson.