There is no meaningful sense in which Lineker, Geldof et al are the "rank-and-file", when they were so high-profile. I was talking, of course, about the millions of people who voted to remain who remain to this day anonymous, to most at least. They don't deserve the contempt that birdie so obviously shows. There is nothing brilliant in a delivery that repeats the same error he rightly chastises Geldof for, by writing off half of the voting public -- in this case not as racists, but perhaps as something more pernicious still. The sometimes unspoken but ugly, when it rears its head, sentiment, that a vote to stay in the EU was somehow anti-British. It was not. It remains not to this day.
How sad that such a divisive post gets the endorsement of so many. If we are to move forward as a nation then perhaps (ex-)Remainers need to understand why they lost, but also (ex-)Leavers ought to show a little more understanding in turn. Their victory was narrow enough that they cannot dismiss the voice for Remaining as some kind of blindness which only the enlightened were able to cast off.