I have never said that, I will never say that, and I will never think that, v-e. I'll thank you to withdraw that outrageous libel.
There's plenty of evidence, both here and elsewhere, to suggest that a fair number of people who voted to Leave didn't care how. I well remember MurrayMints's cries of "OOT OOT OOT" throughout the extensive discussion on this subject, and it's clear that she isn't the only one to think like that here. Fair enough. My point is that there is no evidence to suggest that the 17.4 million people who voted Leave were in full agreement on this point, and plenty of evidence to suggest the opposite. Polls persistently put the question of whether Leave voters want No Deal, or whether they would accept No Deal, and -- with a little variation, it is true -- it tends to be the case that no more than half "want" no deal, and no more than half of the rest would accept it. So that leaves about a quarter of Leave voters who are not yet prepared to accept, let alone embrace, No Deal as a resolution to this.
We can find specific examples, too. Michael Gove was one of the architects of the Leave campaign, and is on record as stating, repeatedly -- under, of course, his career depended on denying it -- that:
// we didn't vote to leave without a Deal. That wasn’t the message of the campaign I helped lead. During that campaign, we said we should do a deal with the EU and be part of the network of free trade deals that covers all Europe, from Iceland to Turkey.
Leaving without a deal on March 29 would not honour that commitment. // (Gove, writing in the Daily Mail in March this year).
Or there is this, from the Green Party Member of the Lords, Baroness Jones, only today:
"As I have said previously here, I voted leave; I did not vote for no deal." (in today's debate in the Lords about five hours ago)
I do not dispute the notion that, for some, and perhaps more even that I'd care to admit, leaving with No Deal was either the deliberate aim of their vote or, as jourdain puts it, something that they were prepared for. I *do* dispute the notion that this was the only position of people who voted for Brexit. But I only dispute that because it's demonstrably false.
This isn't anything to do with "wonky words". People on here who claim to know what they wanted, and claim that No Deal was a part of that, I have no reason to doubt, and I will *never* sink so low as to think that you are stupid. What I take issue with is the simply false premise that this is how everybody who voted that way felt.