Look, I have heard about “buyer’s remorse”. That’s when you go on a binge at the shops and the minute you get home you just don’t like that gold watch, those brown trousers or that green Ferrari anymore. The disappointment sets in pretty quickly, too, with these sorts of things. Remember how short that affair betweenthen DA leader Helen Zille and Agang’s Mamphela Ramphele was? A week.But the malady the British are suffering from now will need us to invent some new words to describe it. Within hours of voting to leave the EU last week the penny dropped for the Brits: they had been monumentally lied to by the right-wing fringe that the UK would be overrun by immigrants dining out on their social welfare benefits, taking their jobs and “our women”.Well, within 36 hours of the Brexit result being announced a petition on the UK parliament website calling for a rerun of the referendum had gathered nearly 3m signatures.So many people were scrambling to sign the petition that the website cr...
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