"They voted, decision made and over 1 million people more, get over it."
Or maybe people are exceptionally upset that an essentially irreversible decision (far more so than any election) might happen on the basis of some of the biggest lies a campaign has ever seen. Lies about less immigration while having access to the single market, lies about £350M to the NHS for example that were admitted to be false by the key exit campaigners within a few hours of the polls closing.
The vote was a huge protest by large disenfranchised parts of northern England, ably helped by a healthy chunk of older xenophobes (look at the demographics). It was democratic in that people went to the polling booths, but that's about all, given that the basis for leaving was (a) demonstrable lies as above, and (b) had precious little to do with the EU, in that leaving won't fix the problems in England, or the issues highlighted in the campaign. Some brexiters are now wondering what the EU is, what those little blue signs next to infrastructure in their towns actually means, regretting their 'protest vote', and rather unhappy that they were fooled into thinking the NHS would be funded by right-wing Tories.
The outlook is not easy:
1- go with the decision and leave the EU, legitimising utter dishonesty in this travesty of democracy, damaging the UK economy enormously, probably breaking up the UK, and threatening the stability of a continent. And total political turmoil in the UK.
2- attempt to reverse or ignore the decision. Better for any sense of reason, but carrying a real threat of severe civil disorder from the very people disenfranchised enough to protest, who would feel rightly aggrieved that they were not listened to, again, even if many of then were taken in by the lies the first time round.
Any alternatives, because I can't see a good one here? I'm not surprised the only happy person anyone can find is Nigel Farage.
