This is getting pretty stupid now.
I spoke to a couple of intelligent young voters - friends of one of my children the weekend after the vote. They asked if I was disappointed as they were and I said no as I am delighted.
At that point they looked at me with some disdain. I said I don't know anything about politics and I just vote the name I think looks a bit trendy and I don't even know the name of the prime minister. I don't think they believed me and then I asked them who your MEP is. Intelligent ones shake their head. Oh how about the head of the European Union. Dumb, blank looks. Oh so you would be like me if I didn't know my MP or head of the institution.
I asked if they were socialist. Of course. Oh ok so which party once had in its manifesto to get out of the EU. I did get an answer at that point - thatcher. I laughed and said thatcher was a classic europhile whose addiction to the union almost destroyed the country completely in the early 90's. Blank looks. I said actually it was a Labour Party that had a manifesto to leave the union when it was a real socialist organisation and was in all but name led by a certain euro hating chap called Lord Anthony Wedgewood Benn. Do you know who was his aide in those days. No answer - too intelligent. Oh someone called Jeremy Corbyn. Bit of uncomfortable shuffling. I was told to shut up at that point.
The concept younger people are more intelligent is nonsense. They have no experience and are impressionable - easily influenced by the total drivel that comes out of Westminster. The world will end, you have no future. They accept it and go with it. To say this is a sign of superiority is a joke.
The fact is the Westminster elite has alienated several areas of society. The older traditional conservative generation that feels badly let down by traditional conservatism and the on the other side swathes of people who see no hope, no future and no one prepared to stand up for them.
The political class has morphed into one. There are exceptions but ultimately the Westminster elite is a private educated self interested body that has no interest in many sections of society.
This isn't about immigration and the NHS - they are mere ingredients in the cause - this is about a revulsion at the elite who have abandoned people. It's two fingers up at the establishment. Jeremy Hunt and Tristram Hunt - supposed political opposites but just the same sneering elite. Cameron I am sure is just a Doctor Who incarnation of the ghastly Blair.
It shows how absurd these politicians are that they actually seemed to believe that they would win. They are so surrounded by the elite that they thought London represented the country. Other than London England voted out.
Tell me how can a person living in a council estate in toxteth be wrong and stupid if a dweller in the Goebbels or some sink estate in Belfast isn't? What I really wanted to ask the young intelligent ones was if we should perhaps have denied blacks the vote, or gays - I mean we are prepared to discriminate against the aged and the stupid so why not.
One other thing that really annoys me is the adulation given to the smug obnoxious Sturgeon. Her predecessor was a ludicrous chancer and similar to Farage - he could poke his pointy stick at the elite and laugh at them and then got his referendum and lost. Sturgeon has zero interest in her people - like the jester she replaced she has one mission - independence. Even if the country is bankrupted (as it surely will with crashed oil prices and no uk rebate) she will go for it. It's her endgame. I've even seen suggestions they should keep the pound. Given the experts she quotes suggest this will be worth less than the Zimbawbe dollar I'm not sure why that's an issue. She cares nothing about membership of the Euro but an obsessions she has had since her youth to extract the country from the uk.
The country has voted. A government was elected on a very clear mandate to give that vote and honour it's result. There is no argument. That is the democratic decision - any reversal would be an abandonment of civilised society and down the road of a banana republic.
Now politicians should start to take its electorate seriously and we should have a Labour Party that believes in wealth distribution and a Conservative party that believes in social development and enterprise. The Westminster elite is finished. Why would anyone not want that.
Even those two bozos that sat on my sofa should understand that - though I doubt it. One probably voted to stay in case we couldn't play in the euros anymore - that's ok though - he'd have voted remain so he's one of the establishment.
Farage comes across as one of the elite who becomes one of 'us' by being seen drinking a pint in a pub. Isn't Dulwich School a school for the elite? Have you read the letter referring to the decision to make him a prefect in the 70s? Are the citizens of Toxteth better off now ( or have they a brighter future ) than before Brexit? A resounding remain vote would have confirmed the Status quo and capital would have flowed in. The pound, shares, investment and jobs would have been stable or have improved. Now we are without a government, an opposition and a Game Plan. It may of course work, but we will go through pain - just a question of how much pain.
Rupert Murdoch cannot contain his glee. He got the result he wanted.