Do you know what I heard the most from people voting to remain......." Oh well, better the devil you know ".  So following on logically from that, we won't try to get out of whatever sewer life may put us into; because we may end up in a bigger one. Now there's REAL ambition and effort to improve your lot in life. The point is BOTH sides schemed, wheeled and dealed in equal measure; so all we had to go on, is how it's been for the last 40 odd years. Most of those that remember the promises that were made, when we joined and WHAT we joined THEN; probably voted to leave.  Those that were too young then, or not even born, know nothing else; so probably voted to remain. You couldn't get a fairer voting system than one person one vote, indeed some have been trying to get that system for years in general elections ( to no avail ). So that's democracy, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose; because all the people don't want the same things all of the time. For those that aren't mature enough to cope with democracy, I suggest they go and live somewhere else, with a much more simplistic and primitive form of governance.