"Typical Steve Shaw bollocks. He claims there was no appetite in this country for a referendum."

That's very gratuitously rude. In fact, REAL fact, there was no passion abroad in this country for a referendum. None at all. You lost the elections in 1997 and 2001, and arguably in 2005, despite earnest campaigns by deluded Tory leaders to use Europe as your trump card ("24 hours to save the pound" etc). Cameron, the biggest bloody idiot in our politics for a century, called that referendum to try to sideline his own right-wingers and to marginalise Farage. Nothing to do with the interests of the country. He was, in his hubris, convinced he'd win. He was lamentably wrong, in the same way that privileged and entitled ex-Etonians are always wrong. So here we are, a country terribly divided. You think that will heal quickly? Well, your ex-Etonian tousle-haired hero thinks it will but it absolutely won't. Get real, Nige. This is just the beginning.