Those who voted to leave weren’t stupid. And much of the result flowed directly from the manners and practices of the bureaucrats in Brussels who over the years did more to advance the cause of those who voted Leave than the Leave campaign itself. The Leave side won, evidently, because the slow-witted and retrogressive elements of the population out-campaigned and outsmarted their demonstratively superior antagonists. The Remain crowd have proved to be sore losers, with their flood of excoriation, mockery, denigration and raw anger directed at those who voted to leave the European Union. EU bureaucrats have a morbid appetite for petty and trivial intrusionsThe EU itself was formed using the frog-in-boiling-water approach: a little encroachment at a time, so no one notices the kettle is getting hotter every year.

Source: National Post June 30, 2016 18:55 UTC