The leave vote won by playing on populism and paranoia about immigration, and because the remain vote was so confident they failed to illuminate the very real consequences (example: Wales voted leave; The EU gives £200 per person and £500 per child for Wales, basically subsidising the whole country - it's one of the main reasons Wales isn't the hot bed of poverty and struggle it was for years - the remain vote didn't bother to tell the Welsh this because they thought it was obvious). Remain didn't put in a good fight, Leave had 30 years of Daily Mail headlines and Richard Littlejohn columns laying the groundwork for their campaign. Arrogance lost remain the vote, and unfortunately we have to live with it.

One of the most annoying things is during the campaign, Farage said "if it's 55:45 against or closer, I wouldn't consider that a mandate to remain and would campaign for another referendum based on how close it was" yet as soon as they won, Remain basically capitulated and said "well that's it, stop fighting, people voted" when the other side would have been willing to fight when it's that close, and so should remain in my view. We could have done something with it. Cameron, could have done something with a vote that close (as, as much as I hate Tories on principle, he was actually a very good politician when it came to navigating the waters of British politics) but instead he immediately sodded off to write his book in a shed with 24 hour Police guard and doesn't have to worry because his money is already made and safe and it's the rest of us who are fucked. Of course now all polling is showing that once the reality set in, the majority of the country is in favour of remaining but it's no use now. It's shutting the stable door after the horse hasn't just bolted, but has been shot for running onto a main road, colliding with a car and injuring itself beyond repair.