It's not my mathematical skills that are in question, Teribus, I'd be willing to pit those against anyone around here - I pulled 34 and 66 from memory, and my 70-year-old brain does occasionally fail me nowadays. However, 34% or 37%, what's 3% between 'friends', especially when it indicates that a comparatively small minority of the electorate expressed a wish to change the status quo by leaving the EU. In those circumstances, it's perfectly reasonable and proper to take a view that the majority, including those who expressed no opinion, are satisfied with the status quo, and are happy to remain.

As Steve has said, the referendum was fatally flawed, it was simply a device introduced by a scared-shitless leader of the Tory party in an effort to ensure a victory at the 2015 GE, the terms were badly set and the whole thing was yet another Camoron Cock-Up.

Democracy demands that issues of significant national and international importance should be debated and voted upon by our elected representatives in parliament, who are certain to be far better informed on the minutiae of the issue than the general public, and whose responsibility it is to make decisions on behalf of all of us. The government has decided to follow the wishes of the minority of the electorate who were seduced by the sound-bites and slogans, and expressed the desire to leave the EU - that's fine - but at the moment, that's all there is.

There will be a long period of negotiation which will, hopefully, result in a set of terms and conditions for our exit. Exit from the EU is the biggest, most significant issue to face the UK since the decision to go to war with Germany in 1939 - why would you, or anyone, wish to deny parliament the opportunity to discuss, debate and vote upon those terms and conditions? Why do you wish to deny our parliament, our very democracy, the chance to do the job it exists to do in the face of the biggest challenge to our economy and society for almost eight decades?

If leaving the EU is such a good idea (and, at the moment that's all it is, an idea - no plan was put in place by the Three Lying Monkeys, just slogans, sound-bites and noise), what are you so afraid of?