In message , at 10:46:41 on Thu, 2 Feb
2017, Neil Williams remarked:
I'm fed up with arguing what people did or didn't vote for when
there are polls which show conclusively that the "leave" people
wanted a hard Brexit by a country mile (an order of magnitude more
than the winning vote margin) and also closer examination shows
the various "Norway/Singapore" soft Brexits were never a realistic proposition.
It would only take 4.0000000000001% of the total vote who voted
Leave not to want that
Not to want what?

Hard Brexit.

But they were falsely persuaded that a "soft Brexit" was even a vague
possibility.

and what you say would be factually false.
Percentages of the order of 40% of the leave voters put as their top
reason a factor which would inevitably result in a hard break.

40% of the leave voters = approximately 20% of the vote. Not much of a
mandate, is it?

We are probably at cross purposes here. All that was required was for 2%
of those voting to realise a soft Brexit was impossible, and thus
Remaining was for them preferable to a hard Brexit.
--
Roland Perry