I don't understand how you have so many upvotes. There is no way whatsoever that half the country voted yes to brexit based off their annoyance with people trying to sound smart. That is completely misleading. No one watched Jimmy Carr say a wordy joke about why people shouldn't vote to Brexit and decided that they would vote just to spite him. It may have been enhanced by this social soft propaganda but suggesting that half the country voted based off that fact alone is ridiculous.

It is a fact that the majority of people that voted for Brexit were of an older generation and from poorer parts of the country. It's not fair to say that anyone who makes this point is simply complaining about a bunch of 'old geezers being racists'. Anyone with half a brain knows that these demographics voted for Brexit because ultimately, they have felt politically and economically unsupported and now feel alienated within their own country. Votes like this provide them with a power that has otherwise been subverted from them with historical unrest in employment, social welfare, and economic prosperity.

The only person in this thread that is giving the "iamverysmart" spiel is you as far as I'm concerned.