Those who 'made it happen' were the majority of those who bothered to vote.
Lot's of those who say they 'didn't vote for Brexit' didn't vote, full stop.
Like many I guess, I was surprised at the outcome of the EU referendum – I’d imagined that with the pre-referendum doom-laden ‘Project Fear’ campaign, the result would have been something like 57/43 to remain, due to the effect of London and Scottish votes.
As with the current pre-election debates, the standard of debate was appalling – little objective information – just a lot of name-calling on both sides. Rather too many (on any topic), seem to have lost the ability to disagree with others, without be disagreeable. 'Going for the player - not the ball'. (Anti)social media seems to have made matters far worse and that's not going to change.
After the referendum, the very people who claim to be concerned about the economy, were the ‘prophets of doom’ who are dragging it down, not helped by the ‘Twitterati’ – those such as Jeremy Clarkson, who offensively said “the country has been trashed by a bunch of old ‘coffin dodgers’ in the North who don’t want to live next to a ******”. Ironic that Clarkson should use ageist and racially offensive terms to accuse others of being racist, but then he’s got form as regards to making racist, xenophobic, sexist and ageist comments. And he was wrong of course, as he so often is.
Every single Region of Great Britain (including Gibraltar), except London, N.I. and Scotland voted to leave - the highest proportion being not in the North, but in the West Midlands, where 59.6% voted to leave – the same proportion who in London, voted to stay, but then London is no more typical of G.B. than the Vatican is of Italy.
It was said that 'ignorant old fogies trashed their grandchildren’s future'. Well consider the proportion that bothered to vote in each age band, and how they voted:
Age band: % who voted How they voted
18-24 yrs olds: 38% 64/36% remain/leave
25-34 yrs old: 45% 57/43% remain/leave
35-44 yrs old: 53% 54/46% remain/leave
45-54 yrs old: 66% 44/54% remain/leave
55 yrs plus: 80% 40/60% remain/leave
So, if six in ten under 25s didn’t even bother to vote, fewer than half of 25-34 yr olds, and just over half of 35-44 yr olds, it seems to me that if they don’t like the outcome, maybe they should have put their votes where their mouths were, like eight out of ten over 55s did? Do they ever consider how much of a struggle former generations had to get the vote that six out of ten under 25s don’t bother to use?
It's all history now .
'All the King's horses and all the King's men,
Can't put Humpty Dumpty back together again'.