Dr. Clarke's explanation of the Leave vote centres on British politicians spending roughly 30 years blaming the European Union for unfulfilled manifesto promises. In his interpretation, even politicians who later supported membership had weakened their own positive case through repeated criticism. He treats the referendum result as a consequence of how domestic politicians had described responsibility for those failures. His comparison with later complaints about the Treasury asks why ministers present institutions under their own authority as external obstacles.
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Blaming the EU and the Brexit referendum
A criticism of British political messaging links the Leave vote to decades of blaming the European Union for undelivered promises.