[Margaret Pilkington]

It really does not matter how the campaign was funded. The electorate wanted a say and no-one was keen to give us a say in whether we stayed or left.

I am sure that many of the remoaners were also funded by rich businesses...but you conveniently did not mention them.
I am pretty sure that those of us with a working brain, took into consideration what leaving might mean. None of the people I know and speak to on a regular basis thought it was going to be easy.
The easy thing would have been to stay and sleep walk into becoming a federal state of Europe.
Doing something because it is the easiest thing to do, is rarely wise.
I am glad that we got a say and I do not regret voting to leave the dysfunctional club that is the EU.
If they were our allies they would not have spoken of 'punishment'(for leaving)....they would have made it easier by offering an acceptable deal.
The main reason they don't want us to leave is that it will leave a gaping hole in the money that they expect to come into their coffers.