Where I live I realised fairly quickly people did not understand what was happening.
Which is why it makes me laugh when politicians talk about the “the People” knowing what they were doing and what they wanted when they voted in the referendum (ref-eren-DUMB).
The basic consensus from the man in the street, or at least the man in the pub seemed to be that Brexit meant...

1 Vote Leave on Thursday
2 Leave on Friday and open up a dozen new Hospitals and ban licensing laws
3 Kick out all the Brown people on Saturday morning back to Europestan or were ever they all cummed from, close all the mosques and turn them in to betting shops on the afternoon, get rid of the Romanians and Poles by nine o'clock in the evening, after they finished fitting my new kitchen.
3a Make talkin' proper English an' singin' god save the queen compulsory, and then moan about how there ain't any curry houses and Kebab shops any more.
4 Stop teachin' the kids foreign rubbish in school on the following Monday, then reopen the Kebab shops and curry houses run by white people.
5 Get the empire back by Christmas and canonise Churchill and Thatcher.

If anyone actually believed the sign on the bus they did not get the point.If they had gone to the trouble to google the facts that amount included our refund plus a whole lot more.It did get the votes though.People below a certain age did not know what it was like before the EU so could also be biased.
How we came into the EU when we only wanted the common market still leaves me baffled.
The outcome now is not going to please anyone.

Leaders can be changed . It is a new system and we are not living in the past. It is a first stage to world government [ which will solve so many problems] and if EU fails we go back 'n' years . Czechoslovakia is an entirely different situation but do not ask me to explain.

UK can provide some excellent leaders but noit the biased Brexiteers .

Not everyone who voted to leave was a xenophobe or a 'little Englander', some saw what the leaders of the EU were about and wanted none of it. Most people in the UK have no problem with the peoples of Europe, but they do have a problem with the EU's leaders and the decisions they make. It appears many of the citizens of the supposedly sovereign nations that make up the EU are not happy with the EU powers that be either.

History has shown time and time again that people of different areas, nations etc. do not want to live under the control of an all-encompassing ruling power. For example, if we look at the fall of the Roman, British and Soviet Empires, most of the territories they had controlled chose to become separate sovereign nations independent of one another. This did not necessarily mean animosity - the 'velvet divorce which separated Czechoslovakia is a good example of a peaceful separation.

I agree entirely....almost word for word in fact.