English Historian Timothy Garton Ash states:
“A universal truth:
nobody knows what is going to happen but everyone can explain it afterwards. If
just 3% of the more than 33 million Brits who voted in this referendum had gone
the other way, you would now be reading endless articles explaining how it was,
after all, “the economy, stupid”, how British pragmatism finally won through,
etc. So beware the illusions of retrospective determinism. There is always a
mystery in how millions of individual voters make up their minds. It is the
mystery of democracy.”
Harvard economist Ken Rogoff critiques the UK referendum
process –
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/brexit-democratic-failure-for-uk-by-kenneth-rogoff-2016-06
Prognosticators got it wrong –
http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-24/they-got-it-wrong-swarms-of-global-chatterers-misread-brexit