Ten years after the vote, we have some new slogans for the Brexit bus

Boris Johnson waves a Cornish pasty during the first day of a leave-campaign bus tour in Truro on 11 May 2016. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Jonathan Freedland is right to highlight the disastrous role played by David Cameron and George Osborne in using the prospect of an in/out referendum to garner votes in the 2015 election, with a view to dropping it if the expected coalition with the Lib Dems emerged (Britain is a swamp of lies and disinformation – and we got here on the Brexit bus, 5 June).

But even their win with a majority did not necessitate the calamity the country suffered. They could have kept their referendum commitment, but demanded that those proposing leave come up with a model for it to be put to the electorate as the “out” option.