'Leave' voters were not as stupid as David Cameron wanted them to be

That "Leave" won Thursday's referendum has been seen as an indictment of the UK's whole political system.
Fully 51.9% of voters elected to begin the process of removing Britain from the EU, marking the first time any member of the EU has voted to leave.
This result flew in the face of betting markets — and, in turn, financial markets — which had long discounted that the Leave camp would ultimately prevail.
Leaving the EU was supposed to be a vote into the abyss.
And in many ways