We are coming to realise the enormity of the decision. Deciding to join or not is one thing, leaving is something totally different.
British life – economic, political, social, cultural, scientific, and more – has become arranged around the fact of EU partnership. It all has to be disentangled: an enormous task. Out of it will come a different Britain, diminished.
The decision to hold a referendum unleashed the ugliest imaginable campaign. Nothing in this campaign was FOR anything, it was all AGAINST. There was no leadership, not an idea for deliberation, not a single memorable speech. It was a campaign of fear, fear of the modern world, fear of commitment, fear of those who are different.
