//Also I'm not speaking about George Osborne's scare tactics -- which, it should be noted, were based on he and David Cameron (illegally!) staying in office triggering Article 50 notification immediately, and which were anyway rejected even by many remain-supporting economists.//
Er..er....
Mr Osborne made no mention of triggering A50 either immediately or after some delay. His quote was this:
"A Leave vote would cause an "immediate and profound" economic shock, with growth between 3% and 6% lower."
Nothing about triggering A50 (which he would have known would not have been done on June 24th). His warning was of the perils of a "vote to leave". We've discussed this before, but I don't know what voters were supposed to assume when he spoke of "an immediate and profound shock". Immediate to me is, er.. sort of straightaway. There were no caveats to soothe the electorate's worries; nothing that said "it won't happen until we've triggered A50"; nothing that said it wouldn't happen until we've actually left. It was said to be immediate. And we're still waiting, three years on.