Personally I think the Leave voters just realised that what they thought was an irrelevant naming convention is going to have serious hardships in store.
Seriously: Johnson & Farage, the lead personalities of the Leave campaign have come out and said the £350 million doesn't exist. Others are saying, from the Leave campaign that we'll maintain the status quo with European trading. I'd love for us to take it back, but if they were going to do that they shouldn't have campaigned to leave.
The Bank of England had plans for handling the financial downturn, uncertainty, and avoiding panic. Seems that none of the politicians for Leave bothered to think beyond the vote itself.
Politicians campaigning on a specific point should face prison for fraud when they U-turn on this scale. I'm not happy just to shrug and say 'what scoundrels, eh'; it's bloody criminal, far worse than any of the normal criminal frauds.
See Cornwall, who voted leave but now want the money that they were getting from the EU to be protected.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-cornwa...
> It is also not very unusual for politicians to promise more than they can keep.
It's unusual for the lie to be so blatant, repeated so often, so obviously wrong, and retracted immediately after the polls close.
Here's a picture of Boris by a sign created for the Leave campaign. It says "Let's give our NHS the £350 million the EU takes every week"
https://twitter.com/mgtmccartney/status/746245181532418048
Here's a picture of their campaign bus. That says "We send the EU £350 million a week. Let's fund our NHS instead"
https://twitter.com/mgtmccartney/status/746245181532418048
There's a bunch of interviews with Leave campaigners saying this money would go to the NHS. (And also being challenged on it).
Here's Farage, on the morning of the results, explaining that saying it was a "mistake" to say the £350m per week would go to the NHS.
I mean, it's obvious that even though the UK may be paying more money to the EU than it receives, there are other ways in which the UK massively benefits from the EU, which will be gone after Brexit is done. So that money isn't all available.
It is also not very unusual for politicians to promise more than they can keep.