Quote Originally Posted by WES View Post
No they didn't - they voted for a less certain short term future in the hope that the long term future would be better and more philosophically aligned with their views of how the country should be run.

Other than the old people who voted to keep out the *inevitable* onslaught of swarthy looking people into their bucolic villages, of course.
Yes, they voted in the knowledge that there may be a detrimental short-to-medium term economic impact, or to put it another way, "to be poorer"