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https://x.com/neilmhta/status/2068507004222464327#m
NEW investigation for Wall Street Journal

- Polymarket is paying scores of offshore clippers to quietly promote its international exchange in the U.S. (though it’s banned from letting Americans trade on the platform)
- Polymarket made dummy websites mirroring its real site, then paid creators to use the fake site and pretend to win thousands.
- Creators altered headlines and used outdated footage to imply they won bets—even when they often lost
- Polymarket paid Adin Ross multiple millions to promote the site

All that and more in https://www.wsj.com/business/media/polymarket-social-media-bets-prediction-market-441cdeb5?st=57dR12&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

A decade on, 57% of Britons believe Britain was wrong to vote to leave the EU

Right to vote to leave: 30%
Wrong to vote to leave: 57%
https://yougov.com/en-gb/articles/54925-what-do-britons-think-of-brexit-10-years-since-the-referendum

It's polling nostalgia for an imagined yesterday, and contemporary disappointment.

The 55% for rejoin the EU collapses to just 35% though if it required joining the euro and Schengen and losing our previous opt outs

I know. And, even before getting to that, people don't want to give up sovereignty to the ECJ, or join the single market or customs union, or restore full free movement.

It's not testing the real fundamentals, and they are not good for Rejoin.

Who said they are fundamentals;

Most of the ECJ replicates laws we have anyway,.

I doubt the claim people don't want the single market. Free movemnet of goods has never been an issue.

Free movement is a problem but I suspect given Brexit lead to a surge from non EU Countries I think it's lost some of it's resonance.

Hardly nice to say it but it sort of looks like people prefer Poles to Pakistani's.

As to the Euro, well if we end up with another financial crisis I wouldn't be surprised if much like Iceland we consider seriously something we thought beyond the pale.

Look at how Trump has changed Icelanders and to an extent Norwegian attitudes to the EU.

One thing that has become clear from Brexit is that many of the promises made by the Leave side proved largely false and it's not at all clear how this would impact if people believe them next time.

I can see an effective The Who based; "Don't Get Fooled Again!" campaign.

Events Dear Boy!

Peter.

Name one promise from the leave side that has proved false.

The Brexit agreement we got is almost identical to what Vote Leave promised. Unsurprisingly as it was negotiated by the same team with the same objectives.

Total BS

So you can't name even one promise from Vote Leave that proved false? 🤔

They promised we would leave the Single Market and Customs Union, sign a trade deal, take back control of laws, money, borders, courts and be able to sign free trade deals.

We left the Single Market and Customs union, signed a trade deal and took back control of laws, money, borders, courts and are able to sign free trade deals.

Exactly as they said.