More dire warnings I see - the French will roll out the red carpet for out banks, they'll end the bilateral borders agreement in Calais etc. I'm beginning to think that after decades of arguments and whining about what a pain the UK is they don't want us to leave. It's great to learn that they really do have our welfare at heart...
Seriously, these are the people we're dealing with. They rather like having their cake and eating it. They like telling the UK what to do and resent the fact that we might be fed up with it. When they start talking about their collective efforts being directed at unwinding existing agreements are they really saying they'll be delighted to stop selling all those nice 'Europroducts' to us by way of punishment? They'd evidently rather try to punish us (and hence the EU) than get on with making the best of the possibilities for new arrangements to be put in place which would be mutually beneficial. It's what happens during an acrimonious divorce in which only the lawyers do well. Anyway, whichever way you look at that it's irrational and surely that underlying mindset is the best possible reason to get out. If there was an iota of doubt in my mind that's now gone, not on the basis that I believe everything will be great outside the EU but the certainty that the EU is like an unhinged spouse and divorce is the only answer.