Ok, so for some odd reason everything in your surrounding contradicts everything that I've been able to dig up on what powered Brexit. I'm happy to believe that this is your genuine interpretation of what happened but I'm going to stick with mine because it appears very much that that is what the aftermath has confirmed: that finance + wealthy parties put up the money that financed the Brexit campaign and that they are the ones that stood to gain from it most. Follow the money. That the economy as a whole shrunk doesn't seem to have impacted them much, their Pounds Sterling are solid and in the short term their doing fine. And if they don't, well, there's always the fluidity of capital when it wants to move across the border. Something that somehow is a lot easier than for an immigrant to make it into the UK.

Who do you think will take responsibility for Brexit?

> I'm happy to believe that this is your genuine interpretation of what happened but I'm going to stick with mine because it appears very much that that is what the aftermath has confirmed: that finance + wealthy parties put up the money that financed the Brexit campaign and that they are the ones that stood to gain from it most.

where did you get your information exactly? a section of the high quality British press?

there's your answer

remain had almost the entire British establishment behind it: the government, the civil service, all large political parties, most of the media, the City and all other industry. these groups mostly had their own self-interested reasons for wanting to remain ($$$ at risk dependent on the result)

leave had Aaron Banks, Farage and maybe a dozen other prats. they also had their own self-interested reasons for wanting to leave ($$$ at risk dependent on the result)

in terms of access to resources, remain absolutely dominated leave by several orders of magnitude

this was one of the reasons it was such a shocking result

> That the economy as a whole shrunk doesn't seem to have impacted them much

it didn't shrink as a whole, it's larger than it was in 2016

and since 2019 it's grown more than its France and Germany (peer nations), in both absolute and relative terms