Oh, that wasn't a staff clique, rather a popular-guys-gang acting like schoolchildren. I'm glad those times are dead and buried too.
And well, there is a massive question mark around it still, but the theory says now UK nationals won't be allowed to move to other countries to live or work and they'll become a foreign country when selling goods and services, so all their stuff will be taxed. That's making banks and factories run into the continent killing thousands of jobs along the way, because if they have to choose, they'd rather stay in the part with 450m people than in the island with 60m. The pound is also collapsing. Obviously this is insanity, so there is the alternative they'll continue the way we have been until now (free trade, freedom of movement- which most Leavers despise because evil Mexicans Poles taking their jobs), except with the only (and extremely asinine) difference that they'll keep paying into the budget but will not receive any federal spending (???) and will not have any representatives in Brussels any more to speak for them when drafting the laws they'd still have to follow anyways (like... it is as stupid as it sounds). Tl;dr: hey have to choose between fucking up their economy and risking their country blowing up (because Scotland, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar voted to stay in and might seek independence to remain in the EU, a la West Virginia) or staying as they were, except giving up their political rights altogether (which is surely the way to end the 'lack of democracy' they criticised).
And I'm not tired of writing about Trump, I love it! I get so many views, and I take some evil pleasure in chronicling the slow-mo implosion of the Republican Party. I tend to do analysis, which mean doing a lot of fact-reporting but with a tiny bit of opinion.