The UK continues to agonize over the Brexit decision. A huge march in London by Pro-EU supporters with hearts containing the EU sign. We know of the almost 4 million strong petition asking Parliament to change the Referendum rules - but cannot be done after the event. Hindsight is 20-20 and how Cameron must regret not taking up the suggestion by the Scottish leader to require that the vote could only change the status quo if it was confirmed in all regions of the UK - thus all of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland would have had to say Leave to change things. We know that Scotland and Northern Ireland said Remain very clearly, but those rules had to be in place before the vote.

If David Cameron has regrets, they are trumped by those of Boris Johnson, who almost single-handed revived a Leave campaign into a success by fronting it after agonising over which side to support. Johnson has come under withering attack from Conservative grandees and accused of being a General who deserted his army. Johnson won't lead the new Conservative regime and won't take forward the new UK vision. Who can? The problem is that vision is flawed - it almost certainly cannot be delivered. Some voters were misled into thinking they could have their cake and eat it. They thought we could withdraw from the EU and regain sole control over immigration and yet get a strong economy by negotiating a trade only deal with Europe and some new trade deals with other major economies. Yet we have to ask, on the latter point, why would such deals be possible now (without the benefits of UK access to EU) and could not be negotiated before? We are less attractive now! Sadly, experts that tried to point this out were shot down as being part of a clique against reform - we weren't against reform, we were against suicide!

The fundamental problem is the first misleading concept - It is not true that the UK can control its own immigration while having access for trade to the EU's Single Market - this market is founded on the four principles of freedom of movement of goods, services, capital and people. That cannot change and countries like Norway and Switzerland know that. Arrive at a border in Europe and look at the signs - EU and EEA Passport holders this way. Membership in the European Economic Area comes with free movement of people. The very least the very angry pro-EU voters would accept is a deal that allows those Brits to travel easily in Europe. If folks were worried about terrorism, understand much is home grown converts to radical views and for other aspects, we need total cooperation with intelligence agencies across the EU.

Yet controlling immigration was a key argument by the Leave campaign. It cannot be achieved without huge loses in other aspects of EU trading relationship. It is a price too high to pay. We would lose more jobs through economic decline than any that immigrants would seek to take! And without anything the other way - Right now Brits have access to job opportunities in 27 other EU nations. Were we mad? You cannot have your cake and eat it! Too late, some are waking up to that reality! It is too late to say "Crumbs! What have we done?"