Actually, I voted Remain and I remain impressed by how assiduously they EU have defended themselves, refusing the bend to our whiny 'demands'. And smile sadly at how the EU's more or less steadfast, unwavering unity is being called 'bullying'.
But 'it's done.
Britain needs the kicking that is coming its way. It needs to be cut back to its 'natural size', that of being a small, damp island on the edge of a continent that it has pretty much despised and insulted throughout history. It needs to lose its places on top tables, afforded due to its history, not its current competence.
Having taken the action to leave one of the world's strongest trading blocks on the back of ignorance, lies, propaganda and blatant falsehoods, having once again voted in, and voted again for a government of public-schoolboys; Britain needs, like a naughty schoolboy, to take its punishment.
We may learn, and grow from it.
But it's rather more likely, given our ever growing wealth and power divide, that the rich I'll ultimately benefit, and the rest of us will find ourselves in a minimum waged, zero-houred, working 3 jobs in unsafe factories, living in all but in unregulated damp flats -future. Like most of us did in the glory days of Empire.
Yes, our GDP will increase, but we won't see that in our back pockets.
As for positive opportunities arising, we just do not subscribe to the social contracts that might bring this about.
We resent paying taxes, and don't care that the likes of Amazon pay all but none. We believe the poor are poor because they deserve it. We vilify benefit claimants. We see non-white people as a threat, not as a valuable resource. We don't actually care that vast numbers of our healthcare and services workers are imported, though we don't like the colour of their skin. Or having them live next door. We accept shit schooling for our kids, but shrug at tax-breaks for the better education of those who will grow up to rule us. We vote for governments that impose austerity on us. We sneer at any qualification that isn't a degree, however useless that expensive bit of paper is (while bitterly resenting those uppity degree-holders). We allow 'apprenticeships' in making coffee. We sit by and allow our government to deliberately underinvest in health care. We nod along vigorously when the red tops tell us who to hate today. We agreed it was the NHS nurses' pensions that caused the financial crash, not the government sponsored casino-style 'light touch' banking shenanigans.
We are not a country that has the sort of middle-ground socialist mindset that could use the 'opportunity' leaving the EU could possibly bring to 'level-up' the population.
We are not grown-up enough.