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Alf0nse-
a tiny eeny weeny proportion
For the purpose of the lexicographical argument, it doesn't actually matter how many as long as it's not all of them. Given that there really is a silent majority, it seems at least possible that the number of leave voters primarily motivated by ends for which exit would not be the means might be the minority.
gbj_tester
If you want to take a cheap shot, why not aim broader with "politician"?
Your answer fails because it presupposes that everybody who wanted to leave the EU wanted to do so for outcomes which were unlikely or even impossible. Furthermore, the failure to achieve certain desirable outcomes by means of the soft exit delivered by our government may legitimately strengthen hypotheses about the achievability of such outcomes by a hard exit.
I do not question that there is a subgroup of Brexiteers who meet the test of having been wrong before the vote, proved wrong after it, and nonetheless more vehement now in the delusion that the thing they wanted was both desirable and possible, but for the word to meet the definition, it must be universal, not partial.