"Nowhere in there are any assumptions made about who the 27% would have voted for or why they abstained"

Really Gnome? Now which one of your pals came out with this then:

"34% percent voted to leave 66% didn't"

Had to point out of course that it wasn't 34% it was 37% and that was 37% of the total electorate, which in turn is irrelevant because it is only the percentage of the electorate that exercises their right to vote that count in any election and in the case of the recent EU Referendum that was the highest turn out of voters that there has ever been in the UK so the only result that counts is that 52% of the voters who voted elected to Leave and only 48% of the voters who voted elected to Remain - The Leave vote won - now tell us why the declared wishes of the electorate of the UK who voted should be ignored and overturned by Members of Parliament, who are after all elected to represent the people.