Sky Views: Will there be civil war if Brexit isn't delivered?

Forget mushy peas with your haddock - at "Frydays" in Burnley, Liz Pugh serves up a large portion of political opinion with lunch.
A firm believer in Brexit, she is in good company in the Lancashire town, where 67% of residents voted to leave the EU.
And she says people are getting restless - they're waiting for something to happen.
"I think it's opened a sleeping giant if I'm honest, I think it's awakened up a lot of people," Ms Pugh said.
And what if Brexit doesn't happen?
She told me: "Oh, there'll be mass riots. There'll be hysteria. There could even be a civil war. The country has used its voice and if the Government ignores what the people have said then there is going to be a civil war. There is going to be."
An extreme assessment perhaps, but a reflection of not just the strong emotion Brexit has stirred up, but the strong urge in places like Burnley to hold the Government to account in delivering it.
People want their vote to be taken seriously but are suspicious that the south (read London politicians) will somehow water the EU result down.
The feeling of a north-south divide is still alive, kicking and growing - if many of the people I spoke to in my old reporter stomping ground of Lancashire are anything to go by.

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