While Brexit is quite comprehensively idiotic there are winners: pretty much everyone now sees how dumb it is to leave the world's largest trading bloc in an bad-mannered huff and wreak yet untold havoc on your own economy just because you chose to agree with the bilious rhetoric of perfidious over-rich clowns.

It also served to provide an excellent stress-test of the EU bureaucracy, helping to increase coordination pretty much everywhere.

It looks like it will further serve to provide yet another stimulus to the subjects of the UK to modernise their systems, which is very long overdue.