Goodness me, I can just imagine some of the teeth clenching and hysterical rage

[World's End Stella]

There was never much doubt that the whole thing would be fudged and subjected to the smoke and mirror treatment until it all sort of just goes away, was there?

Nope.

There was never any chance of hard Brexit really because the people that will be responsible for negotiating it know how badly things could go economically in the short term and, regardless of how many people voted for Brexit, that they would then be held accountable.

All of which sort of points back to the folly that was the referendum in the first place.