See I disagree with that, I disagree with the vote to start with. People didn't know what they were voting for, and many still don't have a clue what they are talking about. Half the people on the news at the time were going on about needing to leave to stop the immigration problem, which leaving won't solve whatsoever unless we don't want to trade with the EU, or because the EU has done nothing for them, despite working at a factory (Nissan up here for example) that is only here due to us being in the EU and because of EU grants.
Should never have put the future of the country in the hands of stupid people who have no real idea of what they are voting for. The main leave campaigners have all ran away now that it's actually becoming a reality, and the ones that are left have no idea at all how to sort things out.
They should either say we are staying, or have another vote based on the facts that we know them to be, rather than what was said 2 years ago by both sides, and has turned out to be completely wrong.
I don't have a problem with leaving, but May has made a complete cluster fuck of it from start to finish, and to leave with either no deal or a shit deal is not going to do the country any good at all.
Do agree with your comments about Thatcher though, and thats coming from a family of miners and shipyard workers who were all deeply affected while the miners strike was ongoing.