Quote Originally Posted by lardy View Post
Well, you've got it there. People were duped into believing it would be easy. Farage said we'd get a deal easy (Norway, Canada, our choice), Johnson said we'd save money and could spend it on the NHS, and he also said the Irish border would be unaffected by Brexit. We now know that these two, and many others involved in the campaign, stand to individually gain massive sums of money from Brexit (not to mention that Johnson got the premiership from it).

As you say, people were duped, and that actually makes it pretty hard from a democratic point of view to argue that the result from 2016 should stand without a followup. Democracy is all about the people making choices from information they have.
This was always the case. A super rich elite pulling the strings in the background planning for a bonanza by stripping the UK of any protective regulation. The tragedy is that so many of the hapless hordes who voted to Leave did not understand they would suffer badly in the event and were manipulated by a class of immoral speculators.