I totally believe you and the traders tend to be very keen about what the near future is going to bring (barring black swan events).
As for the Dutch, yes, it's embarrassing.
Who do you think will take responsibility for Brexit?
where did you get your information exactly? a section of the high quality British press?
there's your answer
remain had almost the entire British establishment behind it: the government, the civil service, all large political parties, most of the media, the City and all other industry. these groups mostly had their own self-interested reasons for wanting to remain ($$$ at risk dependent on the result)
leave had Aaron Banks, Farage and maybe a dozen other prats. they also had their own self-interested reasons for wanting to leave ($$$ at risk dependent on the result)
in terms of access to resources, remain absolutely dominated leave by several orders of magnitude
this was one of the reasons it was such a shocking result
> That the economy as a whole shrunk doesn't seem to have impacted them much
it didn't shrink as a whole, it's larger than it was in 2016
and since 2019 it's grown more than its France and Germany (peer nations), in both absolute and relative terms
total rubbish, almost 100% of the City were pro remain, with maybe a handful of people/firms as leavers
I was on a trading floor that day, and the impotent rage at the "wrong" result was present from everyone, from the interns upto the MDs
what I imagine most of the Dutch went through last week