Of course not but ultimately this is where the complexities of the Brexit vote begin. It wasn't that people were just too stupid, they rejected something that wasn't working for them but unfortunately had already overtaken them.
Many folk on here however reconcile that by basically saying tough. We need factories to be more efficient because there's money to be made, suck it up. My father in law was one of them, before the referendum he was made redundant because his work was moved to eastern Europe where labour was cheaper, which way do you think he voted? His mind was made up on Brexit long before the decision was made to even hold a referendum.
There is one correlation between the vote and it predominately surrounds the poorer voting North. Those poor people weren't too stupid, they were just poor, they were poor in the EU and unfortunately they'll still be poor out of it. They gained virtually nothing from the type of economic and regulatory globalism that is funnelled via the EU. Obviously leaving wasn't the way to fix that but they took the one opportunity they had.
I think we're just in a major transition between old and new, the 'goods' economy is shrinking so I just don't see the huge worry about it. We still trade with the likes of the US more than any other country and we're not in a political union with the US so it isn't like all trade just ends. None of what people really need today hinges completely upon being in the EU.
Sorting our public services just for example should be priority number one. If the government focuses instead on going back into the EU and as a result the economy grows by a measly amount extra then so what, what has changed? The Tories spent 6-7 years fussing about Brexit and we were still in the EU, and yet meanwhile the house was burning down.
