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I get your 'drift' but I think you'll discover that by voting to take the Brexit route, there is an element of isolationism attached to it whether you like it or not and that's what the extreme factions of Brexit campaigners (the union jack brigade and others!) want - they've preached about it often enough in the summer!! The insular and isolationist approach as opposed to an outward and internationalist and shared approach to dealing with European affairs, trying to improve things from within the Euro market and collaboration as a serious trading partner. Sure, the UK is gonna have some form of trade agreement, no doubt, but we're gonna 'pay for that utter folly' and we'll deserve it due to part of our voting population (not a Scottish vote by the way and so much for 'better together'!) being stupidly led and then duped into ever getting near a 'leave' vote!! I call it 'dark politics' that ties in nicely with the US election fiasco - an appropriate name for the politics of 2016 and one good reason why I'll be happy to see the end of this black year when it comes to the politics associated with it!! Then we move to the year 2017 - for many, incl Prof Hawking, it will be the 'year of trepidation' as these 'dark politics' possibly come to the fore in certain countries or hopefully they are 'brought to heel' and some form of stability and common sense finally prevails!!!