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It's the default American approach to assume that a failed implementation equals a failure of a concept.

To be fair to our American friends it's not solely their bias; a lot of the pro-Brexit voters have a similar feeling about the EU.

You don't really know how many of the voters voted against the implementation, and how many voted against the concept, do you?

No, but going by the commentary, and voxpops, I can safely assume "a lot", which is what I said and meant.