ippy,
The referendum was democratic in my estimation something else we're never going to agree about.
But it’s not a question of opinion – it’s an issue of
facts. The Electoral Commission
did find that the leave campaign broke funding law, many of the promises made by the leave campaign are now
demonstrably not true (which is why incidentally people like Leadsom have shifted ground, bizarrely, to, “well even though none of it was true the people knew it wasn’t true because that’s that the remain campaign told them, so they must have known they were voting to be poorer so we’ll carry that out anyway”), the question was framed such that no matter what version of Brexit emerges the liars and ignoramuses will claim, “and that’s what 17.2m people voted for” when that necessarily
cannot be the case.
In other words, the only way we can not agree about this is if you persist in ignoring the evidence to hand.
Let's all start to make a success of leaving.
There is no success from leaving. The irony of “you lost, get over it” is that we all lost – and the biggest losers of all will be the poor and vulnerable who most voted for it. The only winners are the fund managers betting on the UK economy tanking (having taken care to relocate their funds outside the UK so they don’t come down with it) and (quite possibly) the Russian interests who paid for it.
Just walking away from some 160 trade deals we benefit from as part of the EU, high quality food and drugs standards, decent workers' rights, economic and diplomatic influence as part of one of the Big three trading blocs, quite possibly the continuance of the UK & NI, the freedom to work and settle anywhere in the EU etc, in exchange for – well, what exactly? – is an epic act of self harm.
In short: becoming an isolated, irrelevant, intolerant, impoverished little backwater isn’t my idea of “success” I’m afraid.