This 'the idea was right but the implementation is flawed' excuse is convenient to 'respectable' Leavers but also fundamentally misplaced. /1 bbc.com/news/business-…
It's flawed because the Leave campaign baked in to their pitch to voters contradictory promises: (in summary) take back control and be better off. And they baked them in deliberately because they knew it was the only way to get Brexit over the line. /2
But don't take my word for it, read what Dominic Cummings, the 'Mastermind' of the Leave vote said (dominiccummings.com/2015/06/23/on-…). And who's to blame when the unicorn can't be found? Those who promised it or those who can't find it? /3 
What this really means is that there is no meaningful political mandate for any versiom of Brexit. But it's inexpedient for Leavers to have to wrestle with this. Easier - although intellectually dishonest - to blame those in charge of finding the unicorn you promised. /4
Cummings, back when he pretended to care about the truth, acknowledged this. He said you'd get your true mandate with a second referendum. But when Leavers got what they wanted, they preferred to ignore the consequences of how they got it. Easier, like King, to blame others. /END
