First off, thanks for your thoughts Jezzer. I know a lot of Brits, ex-pats living in the UK, and Brits and Scots living in the EU. Hearing from another voice on the inside of this fiasco is always welcome, and provides some more insight for me. Thanks for that.

It doesn't matter that it's all bullshit and populism; you'll grab onto any ledge you can when you're in free-fall, even if it's just to bring the person who pushed you down with you.

I've been sitting with this comment for a day or so, and trying to figure out why it bugs me. And I think it all comes down to the Social Contract.

Living in a society requires the members of that society to take a tiny bit of responsibility for their part in making the society work. You can't just idle along and watch The Voice and buy 99 Flakes at the off-license. Every once in a while you have to vote. You have to engage with SOMETHING. You have to participate.

If you don't you are a leech and a subject... not a citizen.

Your comment is elitist and derogatory to the people you claim voted for Brexit. It treats adults like children, and I don't think that is fair.

Were they played? Absolutely. Boris and his bus was brilliant marketing and a total scam and a con from day 1. His end game is coming around now, and he may actually have played himself right into the PMs seat... because honestly, who the fuck wants it now? There is ZERO chance for whoever occupies it next to be successful, but then Boris has never been successful at anything he has ever done, and continues to rise in the ranks like a turd in a pool.

Back to my point - Writing off Leave voters as uninformed rubes absolves the assholes of their responsibility for this mess (notice how they all have purchase their new home addresses in Cyprus?) and blames the exact people who are most going to suffer. It's victim-blaming, pure and simple.

Ten days. Then the UK quickly returns to being an isolated little island in the North Sea populated by four warring factions. Good times.