Looks like the Independent click bait has caught a few out. It is sad what has happened to that organisation since the print went bust. They were once the pride of liberal Britain for publishing reports and studies into mainstream press. Now their editorial strategy is how to get articles shared on facebook for the burst a blood vessel brigade. They've become a sort of liberal version of the Daily Express and are the epitome of why the liberal democrat cause is rotting to its core right now.
With the full context of his thoughts it becomes a bit of a none story, but he did that bus didn't he so... shares and likes, get that ad revenue up.
Obviously the man rightly has a shitty reputation, but the real take home message from the full context of what he is thinking is that the government can blow the benefits of leaving if it makes the wrong choices and takes the wrong approaches, including in the reorganisation of civil society internally, or as he suggests, lack of it. Not much wrong with that, it's true. The problem is the UKIPification of Brexit, the UKIPification of Brexit lines, the voting identity badge, the black and white nature of it all.
Whilst the gaggle gobble the real discussions can only be found in the noises from the City it seems. Not a surprise, money has no time for emotion.