I work in business in the North East of England, we have a fair idea what it means (nothing positive believe me) and we are terrified. Overall unemployment may have gone down today but in the North East it went up.
The North East is forgotten about - and not just by the government.
Steelworks closed down, 3,000 jobs lost - BBC National news, ITV, Sky, etc. hardly any coverage (Mirror put it on the front page, I think). Port Talbot is threatened with closure, it's everywhere - Lead story on all the TV news shows. Sure they had 1,000 more jobs but the reason for the closure was exactly the same.
It's our governments fault but you have to remember, the people who voted in the referendum were those disenfranchised, who looked at either party and said "you're not doing anything for me".
Now look at the Remain campaign, fronted by Cameron, who people up there already hated him (there was evidence on here about treating along political lines) and he was asking people to stay in a system which they felt wasn't working for them.
Until people understand that, you aren't going to fix any of the underlying issues behind Brexit. And the inevitable calling them dumb for voting leave isn't going to help that. Say what you want about Corbyn, but voting Labour in the hope he gets in is also voting for heavy change - Are people dumb for voting that way?
The EU Ref was almost a psychological invitation to rebel, which people duly did.