Only around 30% voted to leave the EU:

[Denzil_DC]

5. Oh good grief.

OK, we'll go over it all again.

It wasn't a general election. Any sane government would set a relatively high hurdle of percentage if voting on fundamental changes. That's been the case in the UK in the past, for instance in a Scottish independence referendum some decades ago. Could you change the US Constitution on the basis of a 50/50 referendum? Didn't think so. 4% or 1 million people out of a population of 60-odd million isn't enough to ensure stability in the aftermath. The question wouldn't have been settled for good if the vote had gone precisely the other way, and Nigel Farage would have agreed with me on the night before the result was known I'm running out of the will to type now but maybe somebody else will come along and tag team eventually.