A little calmness is needed.
Essentially nobody knows for sure what the UK’s future outside the EU will look like. Similarly nobody knows for sure what the future would hold had we chosen to remain. Exaggerations, half-truths and lies were bandied about by both sides. As I’ve said before, that’s what politicians do. There are advantages and disadvantages to EU membership. It has been clear for ages that whilst many people were happy to go along with it many (more, as it turns out) were not. The choice for the electorate was clear: do you accept that the advantages are so great that the disadvantages are well worth putting up with. The answer came in the negative.
It is no use the Remainers carping on every time they see the tiniest of indications that all will not be plain sailing. The other day we had Eddie forecasting that Dover would become a vast refugee camp because some washed up French politician suggested that the Jungle should be moved to this side of the channel. Similarly it is no use the Brexiteers gloating over a few weeks of good trading figures or whatever. Brexit has not happened yet and the only movements in the markets are based on sentiment alone. It is also no use the 16m saying that their views are being ignored. To do otherwise would ignore the views of the 17m who outvoted them. That's the problem with democracy - you don't always get what you want. There is also no mileage in suggesting a second referendum saying that things have changed. Nothing has changed (apart from the result having been announced). No second vote would have been considered had the result gone the other way whatever changed.
The country needs to move on. The negotiations over our future relationship with the EU, however successful or otherwise they may be, do not override the fact that the UK is leaving the EU. There can be no half measures, no “Norwegian model” (which is worse than our current situation), no half in half out. We’re out and that’s that. We are never going to foresee every single eventality of leaving, let alone put in place plans to counter all the effects (if indeed they all need countering). We need to get on and do it and address the problems as they arise. That's how things get done. Our departure needs to be swift (in political terms) and decisive to end the uncertainty and in ten year’s time everybody will wonder what all the fuss was about.