I’ve been called a “racist”, a “xenophobe” and an “idiot”. I’ve been told that it’s “crazy”, “uncertain” and that I’ve been “led astray”. That last one hurt the most; I’ve rarely before felt so patronised.

But then, I am that rare beast – a student who voted Leave. And on Friday 24 June 2016, t’was the end of days.

Scotland, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar threatened secession, while the Opposition leader faced an attempted coup.

The markets crashed, but it was David Cameron who burned most vividly at the stake. I take no pleasure in that, having voted for and actively supported the former Prime Minister just over a year ago.

'Beast' might seem hyperbolic. It is, in fact, a gross understatement compared with the insults that have frothed forth on Facebook since Leave triumphed with 52 per cent of the vote this week.

I have been shocked and appalled by so many things over the course of the EU referendum campaign. Not least, Nigel Farage’s hateful poster and some of Vote Leave’s dishonest scaremongering over immigration. More so, by the ‘great and the good’ and the sneering condescension that too often passed for a remain campaign.