Brexit will force Britain to work harder at improving skills and buying British and reducing the import deficit. The EU as confirmed by the IMF has been declining for a number of years as a proportion of world trade and every new "member state" joining the EU has nose dived the numbers further.



The decision of the UK to leave the EU was one born out of sheer frustration at the incompetence and failure of the EU elites in Brussels to deliver on any of the promises made in recent decades. Added to that we have had to tolerate unelected officials in Brussels, puffed up with self importance barking orders from on high and treating democracy as an optional extra, one they would prefer to ignore and sideline.



Britain voted Brexit because it didn't want to live in a post democratic age, where bullying and strong arm tactics was the way Germany with France as its lapdog would dominate and exploit the EU for its own personal gain.



The UK is a major destination for EU exports, the UK finding great trouble penetrating this market on its doorstep.



As with many things in history, the British have made a stand against authoritarianism and totalitarianism and we fear the weak and manipulated peoples of the EU have their mouths and hands bound with the prospect of changing the EU not even on the table.



I personally believe the British people took a brave decision to refuse to become part of a totalitarian group of countries "whipped" into decisions through majority voting and the personal ambitions of Germany and France.



Sometimes Barry, there are more important things than just economics. Britain will succeed in this new scenario, of course there will be shocks and tumbles, but in the end the UK does an awful lot of things right and in a world where most countries do a lot of things wrong, the British safe haven will attract those wanting to protect their funds and real estate investments in a country valuing the rule of law and democracy.



Sometimes you have to break eggs to make an omlette and the British have shown their mettle that they have the guts to stand up to those who would destroy them and the EU is no friend to the UK and hasn't been for a very long time. Our bank account was all they were interested in, fairness, democracy and competence are not part of the EU psyche - the EU is simply a club for GErmany and France not an organisation of equals.