@Cedric
Plus of course, the number of people excluded due to being out of the UK for too long to still qualify as legitimate UK voters was lower than the winning margin
Which is perfectly true. However, Cameron promised that the 15 year law would be repealed before the referendum. Yet another manifesto promise broken.
Then, there is the inconvenience that you're forgetting about the little fact that the government made it impossible for those entitled to vote to actually return a vote in time. voting papers were sent out with second class stamps which of course were mostly returned as not having sufficient postage. The few that got though had enclosed prepaid envelopes (which stated that the vote would be invalid unless returned in the prepaid envelope.) However, the prepaid envelope was only valid for postage in the UK. Over 3 million votes were thus not counted. We will never know how those living on the continent would have voted. There was also a lot of confusion about where you should register to vote since the government didn't issue any helpful instructions.
Continental papers at the time were full of complaints from expats. I remember reading a few in the Grauniad at the time as well.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
