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Because there's nothing else to do. The only real brexity thing I noticed when I was in London two days before Britain's historic vote to leave the EU was a poster.

It was for the Leave campaign. Large white letters on a blood-red background

proclaimed, Turkey, population 76 million is joining the EU.

This poster also featured an image of a British passport designed and propped open to look like

a door, with footprints marching through it. And underneath these footprints was the leave slogan.

Vote leave, take back control. When this poster was released in late May, numerous commentators and journalists pointed out its factual

inaccuracies and racist overtones.

But all the condemnations from the intelligentsia and the take downs on social

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