Hmm, a proportion of leave voters were far from politically engaged, to be fair. You know how it's dreadful how the Left sneers at white van man for being ignorant? Well, it's both dreadful and true.
I fear that the vast majority of conservatives who are capable of cogent thought have actually surrendered, beaten by 70 years of socialism.
That's only true if by 'traditional conservatives' you mean 'old people' because as has been pointed out to you many times, we only voted leave because of the 55+ vote so any narrative which suggests that it was part of a movement of some kind which spans all age groups is simply incorrect.
There was a large proportion of both sides that weren't particularly politically engaged. So what? It doesn't alter the fact that a lot of Leave voters were politically engaged. Nobody was suggesting that this trend was universal.
And I don't think conservatives have surrendered. They've just gone underground to avoid being called racist and screamed at by lefties.
It's a movement because sufficient numbers of the brainwashed post-1975 generations have retained sufficient independence of mind to stick two fingers up to their masters rather than meekly doing as they're told. By doing so, those people shaped the outcome of the referendum just as much as the over-55s.
But that's what I mean; by going underground to avoid having falafel crumbs spat into our faces by screeching harridans, we have surrendered.
The triumph of the Left is in sight. Mark my words, all it needs is enough division within the Conservative party to envoke a vote of no confidence, a general election, and *bosh* it will be all over. They will have absolute control, cultural, moral and political, and they will never, ever surrender it.