Brexit did not result in populists. It is the result of populists latching on to the greatest intraparty political divide in generations. It's unambiguously, p

Brexit did not result in populists. It is the result of populists latching on to the greatest intraparty political divide in generations. It's unambiguously, purely a populist position, wilfully divorced from data and focussing on sovereignty and self-determination and Britishness. It never made a technocratic case for itself at all, and in general the core Brexiteers excelled in avoiding making a technocratic case -- it was always going to be hard Brexit because every technocratic argument was successfully shot down as appeasement. Every single major sales pitch for Brexit was populist in nature; no convincing sales pitch for good governance, economic success or long term growth was ever made. It's always about being free of Them, which is an essentially populist position.