I guess it's the problem of unprecedented events, that there are no systems in place to deal with them, which leads to a bad fit as people try to make the event

I guess it's the problem of unprecedented events, that there are no systems in place to deal with them, which leads to a bad fit as people try to make the event fit existing options. At the moment, I just can't get past the fact that without leaving the single market, they can't address the core concerns of the winning side (at least as I see those core conerns, and here we're back to the problem that these were never really accurately articulated past political rhetoric), so this path seems inevitable. I'd love to see political reform in the UK to get a more representative form of government, but I fear absent a major resurgance in the fortunes of the Lib Dems, that doesn't seem like a likely prospect...