And here is the most ironic and sad thing about the Brexit: Since 1985, the UK got a rebate of 66% on their EU spending! No joke, they got a 66% refund, just so they don't bitch around too much. Talking about ungratefulness...
And why did we get the 66% rebate? The system used to calculate budget contributions was obviously unfair. It was so unfair that all the member states agreed and gave the rebate to the UK. See here.
Of course there was a huge amount of lies / propaganda from both sides in the referendum. If what the remain side said was true our economy would have nose dived the day after the out vote. The only thing that has happened is the pound has dropped about 16%. This has put inflation up to ~2% and made exports much more competitive and reduce our trade deficit. Not the end of the world. If only Greece could devalue it's currency. It wouldn't be in the state it is now.
The EU referendum had one of the largest turnouts in British election history. It also took just a simple majority to get into the "Common Market". I'm not sure why it should take more to get out. I guess it does depend on what side of the argument you are on.
"Thank heaven for startups; without them we'd never have any advances." -- Seymour Cray
