I have an issue with claims like that. We are not a bunch of xenophobes who cannot even cooperate with our own neighbours. Only half of us are. The undecided voters swung by the leave campaigners' last-minute switch from lost economic arguments to appealing to people's primal fears have made all the difference. (I fear the same is going to happen on the other side of the pond, BTW. Demagogy always wins.)

Brexit is not necessarily a suicide. And I say it as a remain voter with a "don't blame me" sticker on my car and a handful of tshirts to the same effect. Brexit may not have to be a suicide. Leaving the common market is. So now our job is figuring out how to feed the wolf whilst keeping the goat alive, so to speak. That may take some time. Rome was not destroyed in a day.