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Yes, same here. Interestingly the sensible, good intelligent ones tend to be the ones who have been anti-EU for a significant amount of time, in most cases since joining, and they tend to be able to have a cogent, considerate conversation about the pros and cons, and very rarely being up immigration as a driving factor. The Craigs of this world seem to have deep seated fears of anything foreign which Brexit has allowed to come to the surface and has given them a boogeyman to blame.
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I know several good, intelligent people who voted leave. Their grounds for doing so were reasonable and largely optimistic about what the UK would be. I thought, and still think, that they're wrong (mainly because I think Brexit is primarily a Thatcherite, deregulation stalking-horse), but I can see where they're coming from.
...and then you encounter people like Craig and you can't help but feel that, whatever decent reasons were behind some leave votes, the whole campaign has been largely carried by a bunch of whining, petulant, morons whose highest ambition is to get one over on their perceived enemies in their own country. When did the highest ambition of the political right become to piss off other people?