Re: @Richard 12
And they are now sat twitching and dying, watching the blood pool around their torsos, wondering what happened.
Oh, the histrionics! It's a joy to see some Remainers decrying democracy, gnashing their teeth and rending their garments, prophesying the end of the world. Some even demanding ex post rule changes to the referendum. I must say this "the people are ignorant fools, we know what is best, we should ignore them" philosophy is very popular on the left of the political spectrum.
But lets look at what happened. All that happened was that we voted not to be dragged into the emergent homogeneous EU superstate governed by semi-elected nonentities in Brussels. Is that really a big deal? We'll still be a top ten world economy, and we'll still want to trade with the EU. If they don't, it will be their loss because of the trade imbalance, although hopefully that will start to right itself with sterling taking a necessary downward correction. And we'll have a whole world to trade with, that the protectionists of the EU keep at bay with a whole litany of trade barriers.
The bizarre thing, is the extent to which the supposedly liberal left approve of the ghastly exclusivity of the EU club, its two fingers to the developing world, its ring fenced wagons of ageing first world economies, sclerotic with interventionism and subsidy, and persistently crapping on the youth of Europe. Look at the horrifying youth unemployment rates in Greece, Spain, Portugal, France - presumably that's what you want Britain to emulate and have a share of?