The "leave" campaign won the referendum on withdrawing Britain from the European Union because the arguments on which the "remain" side relied made leave's case. The remain campaign began with a sham, was monomaniacal with its Project Fear, and ended in governmental thuggishness.

The sham was Prime Minister David Cameron's attempt to justify remain by negotiating European Union concessions regarding Britain's subservience to the EU. This dickering for scraps of lost sovereignty underscored Britain's servitude and achieved so little that remainers rarely mentioned it during their campaign.

Project Fear was the relentless and ultimately ludicrous parade of Cassandras, "experts" all, warning that Britain, after more than a millennium of sovereign existence, and now with the world's fifth-largest economy, would endure myriad calamities were it to end its 23-year membership in the EU.