Originally Posted by
ETOPS
This must have come as a surprise..
Only to people who voted "leave" with their eyes shut, their fingers in their ears, whilst singing "la la la" at the tops of their voices. And even they are simply getting what they voted for.
It's not very often, let's be fair, that anyone does actually get what they vote for, but it does happen sometimes, so the clever trick, when voting, is to be prepared that the outcome might just be that you are actually successful.