[Margaret Pilkington]

OH, I did not consider it a rant at all and what you say is perfectly true.......thankyou for your clarification. I thought perhaps I was just being a bit dense.

I think your comment about what the IN campaigners thought would be the strategy and what the out campaigners saw as the future is very salient. They had plenty of time to come up with some ideas, although no-on could really be sure as it hasn't been done before(well not on this scale anyway).
Instead the campaigners did a pretty dire job of guesstimating (and both sides were as bad as each other) figures...worse still these guesstimates were delivered as facts.
Anyone with half a brain should have been able to tell that NO-ONE knew exactly what the outcome would be.

I also think that the tory party were convinced that the vote would be to stay in the EU....and that was a major misjudgement...they believed the polls and yet again the polls were wrong.

Yes I did do quite a lot of reading and research, but I also used my life experience as well(some people call it common sense, but it really isn't common at all).
I liked your maxim about accepting the result and getting on with it and living with the results of your own judgement rather than that of someone else's...that sums up my reason for voting leave very succinctly.

NO-ONE said it would be easy,but then the most worthwhile things in life never are.
We need to get some britches ar$e steam generated now and sort out the fisons.