"The populace" has shown strong (majority) support for a second referendum, as seen elsewhere in the comments. Holding a non-binding referendum on a major and

"The populace" has shown strong (majority) support for a second referendum, as seen elsewhere in the comments. Holding a non-binding referendum on a major and complex issue, asking citizens without truly educating them on the issues and consequences, packing campaigns with deceit to swing uninformed votes, all of this only to end up with a near-tie. What about this is "the will of the people", exactly? "The people" vote for less crime and less taxes. If you've been spoon-fed that taxes is "because of europe" and that crime is "all them immigrants, because of europe", yeah you're going to vote leave. Of course, when those things don't fucking change, your vote has done diddly-squat for you and, when politicians start spoon-feeding you a different boogeyman to help their personal causes, you'll once more vote for less crime, less taxes, but this time they're because of "those mean liberals", "evil net neutrality", "the mainstream fake news media that attacks me", "taxes on private jets... for reasons, just trust me on this" or whatever else is convenient. Democracy.