> This will dilute the (understandable) feeling of betraying for Referendum voters, especially if during the intervening period media and UE will scare people in believing that an actual Brexit would be a catastrophe.

I am not confident the government won't plot its way out of Brexit but I am confident that politics will take on a new character if they defy the outcome of the vote. After all it was the largest vote by numbers in the history of the state.

This was an historic victory, and a complete one, by a group that has rarely had its opinion accepted as valid in the media or government. If you dismiss their vote they have nothing left. This is an important point! There is nowhere else to turn. There is no way to get their desired policy enacted democratically or by playing the game. UKIP had one MP. One!

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/i-loathe-ukip-one-mp-3-9-million-vo...

Media propaganda will not work. Neither the Trump support nor the Brexit Leave voters give it any credibility. Surely you have noticed this. That is why the prediction machines appear to be broken. That tool is no longer functional for anything except stroking the neurosis of the middle class. If I were a mischievous person I would wonder if that were always the case.

The Exit camp do not care what happens to the economy either, not in the short term. They are not sitting down and biting their fingernails about share prices or house prices. For them this is primarily about dignity, their pride in their British identity and national sovereignty. Repudiating that as xenophobia/fascism and then defying a democratic outcome is interesting. A reasonable person would wonder if perhaps the people were bored and sought wish fulfillment of some kind from the drama of history.

Thinking this will pass off peacefully is delusional. You cannot back so much as a dog into a corner and hyperventilate if it bites you. The British police are more likely to join the Exit rioters than stop them. They hold identical views to the working class because they are the same people. The best they will do for civil order is call a 'sickie'. That means this escalates promptly. The riots of 2011 were only based on a few thousand people and it seemed like half of London was on fire at the time, imagine the 2016 riots with 10x to 100x that number, not looking for shops to loot, but heads to crack.

Now I prepare for my daily allotment of downvotes for saying the obvious. You can play with internet points, you can flag me or even ban me, but the fact remains that defying this vote is a dangerous move. I lived in a British housing estate for years, I think I know how they think. My prediction is conservative, but if I told you everything I know I would be dismissed as scaremongering.

The middle class left wing always protest, always are on the streets. For some of them it is an occupation, for others it is more about free expression. They have packed lunches and t-shirts for the occasion.

Do you ever remember a right wing protest? I mean outside of political rallies of course, that is not protest. They are quite unusual as protests go, because they are so rare. Have you noticed how sheepish and amateurish the PEGIDA protesters seem? They are not used to this. So. If you do get to see a mass protest of the right in your lifetime, be prepared, because this time it will be serious.