Well worth reading this in full, just Google the headline to see what the writer Philip Stephens concludes. It nails some of the paranoia out there.
How Brexit may not mean Brexit
"The risk with referendums, as Margaret Thatcher used to say, is that they become a device for demagogues and dictators: the people have spoken so now they must be silent ever more. The point about liberal democracy is that citizens are offered a chance to change their minds...
The leavers, you might imagine, would be brimming with seasonal good cheer. For some, this is the culmination of a life’s political work. They should be dancing in the streets. Instead, gripped by a fear that verges on paranoia, they see dark plots and dastardly conspiracies in every doorway....
The possibility of such scrutiny has provoked uproar among more excitable Brexiters, with the judges condemned as “enemies of the people”. In the manner of authoritarians through the ages, they contend that the rule of law belongs to politicians rather than the courts...."
This is confusing at best for those who took at face value the leavers’ claim to be the champions of parliamentary “sovereignty” against the depredations of Brussels.
https://www.ft.com/content/7b9bd4fc-...a-2b93a6856354