GP was essentially saying: we'll just do the referendum, people will vote "no" and then we'll be done. That's more or less what happened with Brexit, except tha

GP was essentially saying: we'll just do the referendum, people will vote "no" and then we'll be done. That's more or less what happened with Brexit, except that people (against all expectations) voted "yes" in the end, which has led to something of a mess.