The UK didn't want to head in a different direction in terms of everything. They wanted the EU to adapt on some issues.
I think blaming "the media" or saying "people are just too dumb to understand", is merely what losers say when any democratic exercise goes against them. Show me a country or region where only the people who understand all the issues and are untainted by media can vote and I'll show you a dictatorship.
My view is that fundamentally voting follows the money in people's pockets. Euroscepticism across the EU follows the fact that EU citizens feel that on the whole they are poorer than they were a decade or two ago and that EU policies have either not helped that or actively exacerbated it. Certainly that's the view on immigration (the belief that an uncontrolled oversupply in labour with no corresponding increase in demand for that labour has repressed wages)
As I said Farage is a symptom so he's completely irrelevant.
When you say the UK, who do you mean by the UK, the 17million out of 64million. The main issues that have been raised are immigration (surprise) , sovereignty (ridiculous), paying a tiny amount of money to stop losing a fortune.
Who is a loser, not me. This exercise for me is a study of how people can vote to make themselves far worse off by believing lies. It's fascinating.
The biggest losers will be the Brexiters who voted for this, only at the moment they think they've won, what they've won they can't tell us.
You seriously think any other nation would vote to leave the EU. Of course euroscepticism exists in all countries but like everything else not everyone agrees with everything.
The immigration is a total fallacy , even now the tune has changed, it's no longer immigrants they object to, supposedly but now it's different immigrants they want.
UKIP and BP exists because of Farage so it is totally relevant. He's a con-man and a parasite who use gullible people to feed him.
He doesn't even bother to say how much better the UK will be. Occasionally he'll rant on about unelected bureaucrats and soforth.
Sooner or later the UK will leave and then we'll see how much better off the UK will be.
Surely if life will be so much better, why do they need a deal, why are people told to stockpile essential foods and medecines, why is the UK government spending £100m on advertising, why are the UK paying ferry companies for additional space, it's not the space that's the problem, that exists already - the rest of the EU aren't - we don't need to. Someone, somewhere must know what these benefits are.