51.7% of the vote, 37% of the electorate - is it enough?

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1979: Referendum on Scottish Devolution.
37% of the electorate voted for it. 51.6% of the votes were for it.
Nothing happened - because not *enough* of the electorate voted for it.
2016: Referendum on Brexit
37% of the electorate voted for it. 51.8% of the votes were for it.
"S'dah willow dah peeepow!"
In 1979, the people who felt short-changed licked their wounds, pulled together an alliance of multiple political parties and civil society and worked on putting together a persuasive case for Devolution (the Scottish Constitutional Convention).
18 years later they got Devolution.
If the Leave people are sure they have the persuasive case, let them lick their wounds, put together an alliance, create a persuasive case for actual Brexit (no fake unicorns) and persuade the rest of us.
But they are currently outnumbered, and their support seems to be waning by the week.

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