Because it *is* the Brexit decision itself. One side want the symbol of a world they feel they’ve lost; the other side want the freedom to live and work across Europe. twitter.com/tnewtondunn/st…
And it’s a bit rich for the pol ed of the newspaper that is *leading with the story* to be snarky about how much people care about it.
People care about symbols more easily than they care about statistics is something the Brexit result showed pretty clearly.
Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 22 December 2017. View the original thread.