You could say much the same about any vote Lefty. Most people have a political team rather than cast a vote based on manifesto.
Many voted remain as the devil they knew, without understanding the ramifications.
Asking people to vote on a trade union was the problem rather than how people cast their vote.
People are free to vote how they choose without others attacking them for it.
And finally, most people realise it has been implemented badly and probably don't feel the need to apologise and nor should they. This idea that a cast vote needs to be explained is just nonsense.
Some may believe they are owed an explanation, they aren't.
If people voted because they have a political team, which I am quite aware happens, then that is NOT adopting the same best practice decision making process that we usually apply to the important decisions we make in our personal life.
Or do you disagree with that?
'Many voted remain as the devil they knew, without understanding the ramifications.'
Yes, they did.
'People are free to vote how they choose.....'
Of course they are
'.........without others attacking them for it.'
No. But you use the word 'attack' which it can and has developed into, but is misleading as to what is really going on. People are free to assess the reasons other people made the choice they made and judge them for it. If someone made a stupid decision, the fact that they were free to make that decision does not in of itself mean that it was not a stupid one. They don't get a free pass on that just because it was their right to be stupid.
I make stupid decisions all the time. I don't look back on them and say 'well, since no-one was holding a gun to my head it was a free decision, therefore by default that makes it an intelligent or correct one'.
What I do is I own my mistake. First and foremost. Well, hopefully. Sometimes I refuse to accept
I could possibly have made a mistake, because I'm great me. But when I'm not being an arrogant Peter Perfect, then I look at it and try to understand why I made that mistake. What did I get wrong? What didn't I do, what could I have done?
For instance, I might ask was it an error in collecting the information that was available to me. Could I have gathered more information that would have left me better informed to make an evaluation? Or was I too lazy to do that? Did I trust to luck? Did I only consider opinions or information I wanted to believe?
Or was the error not that I didn't gather sufficient information, but that I didn't evaluate the information properly? That is a different failure.
Or did I gather sufficient information and evaluate it correctly, but did I make an error in predicting the likely consequences of the choices? That is yet another type of failure.
That we all do those things makes us human. It doesn't mean we aren't stupid. At least to some degree. You can use a different word if you like. Lazy might be more appropriate if that is what you were. Is being too lazy to gather all the information you need to make the best decision an intelligent thing to do, or is it just a little bit stupid? There are more appropriate words for every type of failure in the decision making process, but I've looked for the one word that can be applied to all the failures and unfortunately (since everyone puts their own especially pejorative definition on the word setting backs) the only one that manages a one size fits all description is 'stupidity'. For instance 'lazy' doesn't work for someone who gathered lots of information but didn't evaluate it very well, or misunderstood the consequences of the solution they went for.
'And finally, most people realise it has been implemented badly..'
It has, but it became fairly obvious to those who understood the issues that it was always going to be difficult and would lead to problems, because Brexit, as promised, was an undeliverable pipe dream. It also became very apparent early on that these people who had advocated and persuaded people to vote for this, were ignorant, lazy and incompetent at anything other than telling people what they wanted to hear.
'....and probably don't feel the need to apologise and nor should they. This idea that a cast vote needs to be explained is just nonsense. Some may believe they are owed an explanation, they aren't.'
I don't fully agree with this, but maybe I will return to this at a later time.