"Who could be bothered to vote."

And how do you know that all the people who didn't vote couldn't be bothered? What about the ones who wouldn't vote because they regarded the referendum as illegitimate? What about the ones who couldn't decide? The trouble with your attitude is that you're putting all the non-voters into the loser camp. Couldn't be bothered equals they've given themselves and the remain side a problem, so tuff titty. Well an awful lot of those non-voters would probably be able to give you a good run for your money over brexit down the pub. Very presumptuous of you to be so dismissive.

If you don't trust the BBC, well where do you get your information from? ITV? Channel 4? Which newspaper, please? Not Al Jazeera I suppose. How do you decide what to trust and what not to trust? How do you select, on what basis? Or do you charge around the world gleaning all your information first-hand? You purport to know so much that you can can demolish all your usual suspects on every thread in which they have the temerity to raise their heads, but you never give us the sources that make you such a fount of knowledge, do you? How do you know we were lied to in 1973 and 1975? Who told you that? If you worked it out for yourself, well who gave you the facts upon which you based your conclusion that you were lied to? How do you know that over a million Cubans fled in fear from Castro? Were you in Cuba at the time?

If you answer this at all, I predict that "Daily Mail" will not form part of the answer. I would never be so presumptuous as to suggest that some of us may secretly be harbouring a suspicion or two on that front, of course...