Well, 52% of it did anyway.  The UK has voted to leave the European Union and plans are already underway to ‘Make it so’: as Jean-Luc Picard would have said.    

Anyone who read my last leader will know that I didn’t want to leave, and why.  But, what’s done is done and I guess we’ll all just have to make the best of it.  Perhaps now some of the lies and deceit we have had to put up with for the last few months will begin to fade.  However, with a new Prime Minister to elect and the leader of the opposition being on definitely dodgy ground, I suspect not.    

Maybe the Brexiteers will be proved right.  Maybe we will be better off on our own; perhaps the Norther Irish will get on better now with their republican brethren; Scotland might get its independence; and we might live happily ever after.  The English football team are also on target for a World Cup win I believe.  

The truth is, nobody has the faintest idea how this shambles is going to shake out nor how to achieve what the British public have demanded … no matter what they say in front of the TV cameras.  We’ll just all have to hang on and see where we end up and trust that our leaders know what they are doing. But as most of them voted to stay, there are more manning the lifeboats than the tiller.  

The leavers are very chipper right now and the remainers are frightened. But nothing ever turns out to be as bad as we fear nor as good as we hope.  The European Union has had a kick up the backside and it might well turn out that the reforms that make it better for us all will come from what right now seems like lunacy.  

The international moving industry thrives on change.  It doesn’t matter why people are moving, just that they are.  The industry is very resilient and we may find, after the initial shock has subsided, that things turn out fine.  Domestically, however, we might be in for a rougher ride as people feel less certain about their futures and less rich.    

If you want to understand what the British are concerned about, look to our sense of humour.  The more we joke about something, the more worried we are.  I’ve heard, for example, that there is a proposal to change our name from the United Kingdom, to Poundland as we are united only by our currency.  Sounds like a plan.