Well, thankfully, it´s over by now. This show proves that the bureaucrats have lost contact to us. The people appreciate the freedoms we have in the EU, and we like being in the EU. But we don´t like a bureaucratic monster that controls us without democratic control and without respecting the sovereignty of our nations. Europe - yes. But not that fast, not that "out of reality".
Genau! Of course I know the elite are going to misread this vote as usual. But why do they think the public rejects them over and over again at every turn? I've read that because of European history (but also true in the US to some extent), the elite very openly sees the public as a barrier and as a danger.
The irony is that this could have all been avoided if they weren't so stupid to think they could have won a referendum in France. Obviously that's why they avoided one in Germany!