It's wishful thinking that the deals will be as favourable to the UK, with its now much smaller leverage.
There's going to be pain, but I have confidence that we'll get deals in place that on average over the next five to ten years will see things balance out.
Five to ten years is a very long time to bet on. I do not share your confidence. And it looks like you will have less than two years time to settle things. BTW, is that five to ten years with or without Scottish oil?
Just remember: if you're wrong, the people who voted for leave and those who advocated it are to blame, no one else. Not the EU, not "the experts", not the "scaremongerers".
I have friends that used to work for BP and Co in Aberdeen and their take on it is that the good old days of oil production in Scotland are well and truly dead.
Dead dinosaurs to one side - whatever the actual truth, the media here in the UK (including the BBC in my opinion) did a terrible job of providing fact based, balanced views on the situation. Scaremongering might be a bit harsh - but the UK public are currently running scared and nothing good will come of that short or long term.
Ultimately trade deals are important not just to the UK but to the countries it trades with. People in power will make deals happen because they have to.
There's going to be some short term pain - but ultimately everything will balance out.