Remember that British media had always portrait Europe negatively. The population was prepared. The question is, has Farage abused that setup and the elite opposed Brexit, or is he the lightning rod for a decision that other people made?

My impression is that the elite is not using all their power to undo the decision now so they likely were not opposing it then. That Putin paid for it is just the icing on the cake.

We want to believe that Brexit was wrong because if it was strategically the right decision then we can expect bad times ahead for the EU.

Remember that British media had always portrait Europe negatively.

By “British” media, are you including the newspapers owned by foreign influences like Rupert Murdoch and Evgeny Lebvedev and non-doms like Viscount Rothermere, and the TV channels owned by foreign chains like Paramount (5), Comcast (Sky) and Liberty Global (itv)?

Much big British media isn’t actually very British and sometimes doesn’t particularly seem to have our country’s interests at heart, especially when facing something like the EU that is actually big enough to start trying to regulate international media messes, instead of relying on a few media companies to help get or stay elected.