Daniel Hannan,
Cons. HomeOn what basis do Remainers deny the legitimacy of the ballot? I'm sorry to put this so bluntly, but it boils down to snobbery. A bunch of dimwits and bigots, we're invited to believe, were whipped up by unscrupulous demagogues.It is precisely this patronising attitude that pushed many people into voting Leave in the first place. They were fed up with theà de-haut-en-basà tone of a political class whose members often benefited personally from the EU. Every time they saw another letter from hoary-headed grandees demanding a Remain vote, they bridled.
