Weepy Remain voters devastated not to have got their way in the EU referendum are planning to leave the country in a huff, according to a new survey.
One in ten Europhiles aged 18-39 said they are “more likely” to relocate abroad as a result of the UK’s decision to quit the EU.
The same survey, reported this weekend in The Observer, said that as many as half of Remain voters “cried or felt like crying” when they realised that most British people do not agree with them.
Threats to ditch Britain completely – the vast majority of which will obviously go unfulfilled – are the latest phase of the ongoing tantrum thrown by those who find themselves on the losing side of Britain’s historic vote.
Project Tantrum may have peaked on Saturday, when an estimated 30,000 marchers stomped around Hyde Park and howled against the will of the people.
Today efforts to derail the Brexit process showed some teeth, with pricey law firm Mishcon de Reya threatening to take the Government to court if it tries to pull away from the EU without a vote in Parliament.
The poll, carried out by Opinium and academics at the London School of Economics, also found a huge wellspring of rage, largely directed at older voters.
More than 60% declared themselves “disgusted” at those prepared to jettison the EU, while 67% were “angry” and 72% “frustrated”.
When asked what exactly they would miss about EU membership, more than half of respondents said they would miss the EU flag, while others complained that they liked having a European Union passport.
Some mourned “the right to work or study abroad” – even though no settlement has yet been reached on what will happen to those rights post-Brexit.
The survey results came as leading Leave campaigner Boris Johnson expressed his bafflement at the outpouring of grief for a multinational organisation with such obvious failings.
In his weekly Daily Telegraph column, he wrote:
I tried to think which of the EU’s signature policies they were so keen on. Surely not the agricultural subsidies that make up most of the budget, and that have done so much to retard development in the Third World. They can’t – for heaven’s sake – support the peak tariffs that discriminate against value added goods from Sub-Saharan Africa. Nor can they possibly enjoy the sheer opacity of the system – the fact that there are 10,000 officials who are paid more than the Prime Minister, and whose names and functions we don’t know…
I don’t believe that it is psychologically credible to imagine young people chanting hysterically in favour of Brussels bureaucrats. The whole protest is not about the EU project, per se; it is about them – their own fears and anxieties that are now being projected on to Brexit.
Let’s see how many of them actually work up the gumption to go…