I feel like Britain was sold a bad deal on leaving the EU. Should have been a multi-choice referendum, like Puerto Rico’s last status referendum in 2012.

Now everyone is getting the incorrect impression that this is a binding referendum because “the majority voted”, in spite of Scotland and Northern Ireland, two constituent countries, voting to Remain.

Binary choices like this are usually flawed when put to a public vote. People don’t know their full options beyond the single “Yes/No” question. But this is what the Conservative backbench and party base wanted, and now they’re getting it in spades.

Conservatives are coming apart, split by the vote. Labour is coming apart, split by the alleged unenthusiastic support of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for the Remain campaign (and some older political scores).

The Liberal Democrats, meanwhile, are coming out, in the days after the vote, as the biggest momentary beneficiaries of the pro-Remain political reaction against the vote, and are even throwing their weight behind Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP on Scottish negotiations with the EU.

Britain may be in the throes of a major political realignment, one which will have to either react against or adapt around the reality of migration and free movement of labor. Nevermind the hypocrisy of the inheritors of a historic world-colonizing power like the UK feeling gutted by the “invasion” of “migrants” so much that they’d withdraw the country from their foremost, closest major trading partner.