Sure, but it's not uncommon to set higher thresholds for major, breaking changes to the status quo than a simple plurality of votes. Although that immediately

Sure, but it's not uncommon to set higher thresholds for major, breaking changes to the status quo than a simple plurality of votes. Although that immediately raises the question of whether a vote to remain was really a vote for the status quo in any meaningful sense. What if it was interpreted as, for example, giving an active mandate for the "ever closer union" advocated by many European politicians? What if the UK found its negotiating position within the EU weakened once the long-standing threat of leaving had passed? As we're now seeing, the in/out status alone is only a very small part of the story.