surfer LOL at your response to a few people who think you talk rubbish. I guess it's not nice being disagreed with.
It's very telling that the most prolific posters on this thread self-identify as affluent. Without being cheeky, I'd also guess they are all aged somewhere between 45 and 70.
My DH (who, pre-brexit, used to campaign for the conservatives in our constituency) went to the pre-vote conservative debate on brexit.
He came home with stories of affluent middle aged women, one after the other, in the audience, very excited about the prospect of leaving the EU. Faintly bizarrely he thought, given the affluent, middle England make-up of the constituency, the main issue when pressed seemed to be pressure from immigration, but also unspecified complaints that 'this is not what we voted for'. One lone, much older lady stood up and made a quite impassioned plea to think of the future for young people - 'you must have grandchildren?' Etc etc. She was definitely not in tune with the mood. Economics - local or national - was a non-issue. Like you, surfer, these issues really did not seem to matter. 'We want to leave, and that's that'. Almost evangelical.
It's all very peculiar. I remember, when Hague campaigned on keeping the pound, really the mood was the opposite - I quite liked Hague and I remember shouting at the radio to shut up about the pound because 'nobody cares about the EU'. It was all 'schools and hospitals'. I wonder what has changed in the national 'mood'. It feels very Princess Diana's funeral'. Oliver James should write a book on it!
It was, I think, a defining moment for him, as the Conservative supporting owner of a successful small business.
The rest of the leaflets in support of our local MP make satisfying firelighters.