@rupercito @tofugolem @toddcraiger my piece from the Guardian at the time covers my thoughts fully on the matter. (Copied/pasted)

This country (by which I really mean England) is having a kind of collective nervous breakdown which has almost nothing to do with EU power over it. It is rather the result of the following factors: but

Vicious Tory policies which have made the poor pay for the crimes of the super rich. These policies made many people vote in a kind of scatter gun way against the establishment in 2016.

The ever increasing power of the City of London since the time that Britain lost its colonies but instead created a financial web around the world which encouraged every gangster and corrupt dictator to deposit their filthy lucre in its mysterious and arcane trusts. The City has resisted any attempts by the EU to bring these transactions into the light and therefore tax them. It believes in a kind of historic exceptionalism which is unchallenged in the UK.

An absurd and intellectually dishonest media which has been filling people's heads with nonsense about the EU for the past 40 years. Ludicrous stories such as: We will only be able to buy straight bananas, barmaids won't be able to show any cleavage, poppy appeals will have to be taxed, the EU is going to ban loud music in pubs and the Queen was going to be removed form British passports. Consequently when many people try to think clearly about the EU their mental pathways are too often blocked by a foul smelling mush. A kind of fatburg of the mind.

Lastly the deeper issue of an identity crisis. This is a long term problem created by the British empire. As it grew more and more powerful it wiped out many regional and historic cultural identities of the UK and replaced them with an imperialistic national one based on racial superiority and arrogance which were much admired by the Nazis btw. As the empire has declined and faded away those imperial notions have become an embarrassment for most but this has left a cultural void which has not been replaced by any more benign and gentle ideas of nationhood and collective belonging. The result is a semi insane society. Selfish, nationalistic, consumerist and bereft of simple spirituality or a sense of caring for others less fortunate.

The Tories (and Farage) have exploited this cultural vacuum to the hilt and are prime examples of its diseased thinking. The Tories created the referendum to save their own party not the country (and Farage has exploited it for his own ends)and in doing so they have taken the country into a political, economic and cultural crisis that it seems almost impossible to recover from.

@rupercito @toddcraiger @filmcritic
Are you certain they don't believe their own bullshit?

I'm a big believer in Hanlon's razor: All else being equal, it's not safe to assume malice when stupidity or incompetence is sufficient to explain events.