The government is fucked either way. There's no way they can give voters the things they promised to get that result, and they know it. The likely end result is

The government is fucked either way. There's no way they can give voters the things they promised to get that result, and they know it. The likely end result is that a whole bunch of the losing side's "fearmongering" turns out to be unfortunately accurate, and they probably knew that too.