Fair enough, but my main point stands: the vote was about whether to be a member of the EEC.
Thatcher lost her enthusiasm when the EEC morphed into the EU, when a free trade organisation became a union; and the UK has voted to leave the EU for largely similar reasons.
Jeremy
That's the big one, debated time and again as to whether it's a true representaion of the facts or not.
Some say it was always the guideline and others say it was something that morphed into something else later on. I think the bottom line demonstrates that not enough of us, myself included, really know what's going down when these decisions are being made. How could we know? There are thousands of documents to be read - who has ever done that, and even were we able so to do, how many have the legal training to understand ramifications or even imagine them? It's why we pay politicians to do it for us on a daily basis.
I have made big enough mistakes myself in situations where I imagned I had all the facts; why depend on poor old Joe Public to make even bigger ones? That's why I think a referendum is always bad news: it depends on ignorance of the facts, little information and no political skills to arrive at hugely important decisions.
Now we have to pick up the pieces and answer to our chldren and grandchildren, and tell them why we fucked up their ability to travel, without asking anybody's permission, wherever in Europe they wanted to go, stop, and hang out their shingle should they think fit. Wonderful Boris, I owe you.
Rob
P.S. Just realised: in all of this, poor old Farage doesn't even raise an eyebrow anymore. Did his bit, served his purpose and now disappears back to where he came from. You were used, buddy, used.