Everybody, who was paying attention and resisting the urge to lock themselves in an echo chamber, knew everything there was to know about the referendum except for one thing.
The result.
It is telling that all these grave misgivings about its democratic validity did not translate into notable action until the "wrong" side won.
Please spare me any future bleatings about the "tolerant" nature of Britain. The "tolerance" for people who in the main have the thinner edge of the wedge has been only too apparent. As has the totalitarian tinge infecting clumps of the British left/liberal leaning population.
Anybody vilifying leavers & supporting this setting aside of a democratic process, you are throwing your poor, your disenfranchised and your low on access to opportunities under the bus by attempting to deny them an equal democratic voice. When they vote in a way you don't like, your "superior intelligence, education & character" belatedly kicks in once the result is known and you suddenly notice all these "fatal flaws" in a democratic process that has been in sway for a year.
No amount of virtue signalling with stackable goats on benefits and council house threads can wash the above away. True colours have come out.
And if I were in Britain I would be worried about a successful bid to wrestle a winning vote off people. More than 17 million have realised just how big a group they are. The extent to which they dominate the geography of England and Wales. The reality that not one of the four main parties adequately represents them.
That is a potent force with no unifying representation. Yet.
If you want to poke that angry bear with a stick by annulling a vote they won, have the fuck at it. But don't whinge after if you end up politically eviscerated by its claws as retribution.
Given how much smarter than anybody else a sizeable chunk of remainers believe themselves to be, you'd have thought there'd be some recognition of that potential side effect of their cunning "cancel the referendum result" plan.