See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36803544
The reported interpretation of the first chart might charitably be described as over-stating the case; as inspection shows, low income opponents of capital punishment appear twice as likely to have voted Leave as their high-income counterparts.
In the second example the commenter appears unaware of the notion of spurious correlation
Julian
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