Thread by @camcamdamn

How many Leave voters had a problem with the EU before the referendum was announced?
I don't remember marches or demonstrations demanding an EU referendum.

I don't remember a movement of millions of people claiming the EU was a corrupt organisation we should leave immediately.
I don't remember a petition of millions of people submitted to the government demanding we hold a referendum to leave the EU.

The referendum movement started because twenty Tory back benchers didn't want to pay taxes. Not because the people demanded it.
Truth is, Leavers want Brexit because... well, they want Brexit, is all. The same way I felt I would die without a pink bike when I was five years old.

When you ask why, all they do is repeat the lies that were fed to them that have been long debunked, or simply "because we won the referendum". Neither of these justify the economic damage Brexit will inflict on the country, or decades of negotiations that must follow.

People these days feel disenfranchised by politics, and unheard. That's a pretty shit way to feel. So the suggestion that we're going to ignore their votes and cancel Brexit is one that makes people understandably angry.
What isn't understandable: why object to another vote?

Either public opinion has changed, which means Brexit shouldn't go ahead anyway, or public opinion hasn't changed, and you get an undeniable mandate for Brexit.
The Brexit result was an unlikely fluke. We all know it. We also know it wouldn't stand up to a second referendum.