"Rush to federalism": As we are a large and influential member of the EU there can be no "rush to federalism" without our say-so. We have the veto.

"True democracy in action": Well, democracies are predicated on universal suffrage, true enough. But in a TRUE democracy the electorate is properly and honestly INFORMED before being asked to vote. We live in a country in which, at best, lip service is paid to political education; at worst, it's frowned on. Of course, we have the radio and the telly, oh, and social media, God help us. And we also have the Mail, the Sun and the Express and blogs by far-right idiots, all of which deal in confirmation bias on a very shallow level, ruthlessly manipulating the electorate into one chosen political direction whilst demonising those on the other side. An electorate well-educated in politics wouldn't be anywhere near as easy to manipulate, but that is what we have not got. Both sides in the referendum campaign exploited this in the most unprincipled manner, by lying, misrepresenting and making totally unjustified predictions. The trouble with giving just voting statistics in order to declare that "true democracy" was served is that this aspect is completely ignored. Asking people to vote on a huge issue about which they are deliberately kept uninformed and misinformed, and which is in essence giving them an irrevocable decision, has nothing to do with TRUE democracy, and anyone who claims that it is could use a good dose of political education themselves.