If brexit is halted the leave camp will not take it lying down - and those with brains and money and means aren't going to stick around to see if it all pans out OK. Young brits, particularly Londoners, are very mobile, and generally willing to emigrate.

Additionally, even if they call the whole thing off, the already present uncertainty has dented the next decade or more for the UK economically, diminishing the prospects of the young and/or bright.

I feel for many of the leave voters, as they voted for an illusion they either lacked the faculties or tools to see past. Many are hateful, but many were duped - but nobody likes to admit that they were duped, so they'll either duck and hide, or become hateful in response to the unambiguous hate coming from the very betrayed feeling remainers.

It's an awful bind, and it's one that's played out before, very poorly.