"The passions released by the outcome of the EU referendum vote have not subsided." Credit: Flickr/threefishsleeping. Some rights reserved.The passions released by the outcome of the EU referendum vote have not subsided: nearly two months have passed, but intense recriminations (“lies, bad faith, stupidity, racism, xenophobia, irrationality, etc”) persist amongst Remainers.
On the other side, there is some unattractive gloating over the absence of the chaos predicted by a chorus of experts: instead, employment is up, unemployment is down, interest rates have been reduced, not increased, consumer spending has surged, the prospect of a recession is receding, the stock market is booming, and so on.
If the campaign itself had been bad-tempered and impatient, it had at least been framed by a broad working assumption of a Remain victory, within which the special pleading of the ill-assorted Leave leaders (Gove, Johnson, Stuart, Grayling, Farage and Duncan Smith) could be treated with a mixture of condescension and irritation.
