Reasons to be cheerful

Brexit won't be all bad.

It may well lead to increases in Britain's woeful productivity (only Italy is as unproductive as us). If David Davis can be stopped from keeping the borders open then firms will need to train UK citizens.

Brexit may also help to even out the national spread of wealth. Britain has nine of the ten poorest regions in Northern Europe and one of the richest ten, in fact the very richest - Inner London. We are the most unequal country in Northern Europe. Currently, of course, the EU supports our poor regions with grants and subsidies. Those will clearly disappear.

So how might Brexit ease inequality? Remember that 40% of our exports are financial services, and these all come from London. Post-Brexit, with passporting rights lost, with the Euro clearing business gone and so on, London will no longer be as rich, reducing inequality.

It will stop those dole bludgers from leeching off the rest of us. You know the ones - born-and-bred UK citizens who think the country owes them a living. With the economic problems mounting they will soon have to take a job or starve. Fruit picking is hard (I managed just a day of it - fortunately I have marketable skills so I had a choice) but it is an honest job.

Foreign holidays will once again become a perk of the rich,, what with sterling tanking and airlines relocating to Europe, funnelling business back to all those Great British resorts - Blackpool, Margate, Clackton, and so on. If you can't hack fruit picking you could always get a job as a waitress or chambermaid in a resurgent seaside resort. Jobs that are currently dismissed as "for foreigners" but will soon be just for us. I've done both those jobs and they're not too bad. No real prospects, but at least you are inside.

If you aren't on the dole then you should be making plans to keep ahead of these changes, and even cash in. If you are currently working in finance in London then sell your house right now and snap up some properties to run as bed-and-breakfasts - look through magazines from the 40's and 50's to pick a likely holiday spot. No point in waiting till your company relocates - you'll be out of a job and property prices will be spiralling down by then.

Alternatively you could always emigrate.