Within hours of the EU Referendum result being announced, the leaders of the Leave campaign were backtracking on their "promises" to the electorate. There is plenty of evidence for this all over the internet : all you have to do is Google the phrase "leave backtracking promises" and you'll see what I mean.
Fast forward a week or so and the "Brexiters" are also claiming that the other side lied. We now have a situation that whereby the whole business could best be described by "Lies, damned lies and the Referendum". Both sides are sticking to their respective guns despite the fact it looks like that politicians lied to us on an unprecendented scale. It's easy to form the opinion that there were more lies told than in a General Election campaign and that takes some doing.
Meanwhile, we are urged to "Keep Calm and Carry On" : no-one is saying for how long, probably because no-one actually knows.
There has, however, been one very quick change in the political landscape since the Brexit vote : Cameron has resigned and the P.M.'s job is up for grabs. The front runner, as I write this, is Theresa May who is generally considered somewhat to the right of Cameron. If she does get the job then the Brexit vote will have achieved one thing : it will have shifted the government significantly to the right. With Labour MP's rebelling against their elected leader, it is difficult to see this governmental shift to the right being corrected in the near or medium term future.
So, Brexiters, well done! You've just made the government more right wing. And if you think that is something that will benefit the country as a whole then I'm afraid you're badly wrong.
