It also wasn't entirely inappropriate as a way of giving the UK political establishment a good kicking, given that they'd been using the EU for decades as a way

It also wasn't entirely inappropriate as a way of giving the UK political establishment a good kicking, given that they'd been using the EU for decades as a way of pushing through laws they knew voters didn't want without that pesky business of having to publicly back them and get MPs to do the same. Remain supporters love to point to the fact that many unpopular EU laws were actually pushed for by the UK government as proof Leave supporters are stupid to blame the EU, but I don't think that argument flies.