Well you have some of your answers today.
Cameron should have passed a law forcing the Leave camp to state exactly what Brexit would mean for trade, immigration, the environment and defence, everything, and how it would all be achieved
This was always impossible. The only categoric answer to that would have been Hard Brexit because 48% of our trade is tied up in the EU and requires 27 bickering, backstabbing, "perpetually positioning to do someone else down to their own benefit", nations, to agree to whatever we say.
Hard Brexit is a simple answer to a very complicated question. Something, I would have thought, we had learned to avoid because simple answers in these situations come with a very high price. Witness the League of Nations, the treaty of Versailles and the eventual cost.
What we need is calm, steady, progressive political leadership which will try to give us the answers we need. We have two years to achieve this from day1 and, I'm willing to bet, that even in the case of an 11th hour hard Brexit due to EU intransigence, that the end result of this journey will be better than some egotistical posturing before the referendum; to which we would have to stick.
There was a question asked during the referendum which I have not see revisited. The question was simply "If you were not in the EU today, is this an environment you would want to join?".
That was the most valid question of all because it took all of the fear out of the debate, all of the subjective politics and put the debate where it belongs. Namely "do we fit and would we want to fit, given a free choice with no fear". The answer to those two questions was NO and NO emphatically every single time it was asked.
So now it's time to stop the fear campaigns, time to roll our sleeves up and time to get on with it. I don't just meant the politicians, I mean all of us. Stop second guessing, stop the whole "what if", time to start moving forward.
For me that means asking the right questions of our representatives, voting in the right way if we don't get the answer we want and driving the country forward to a new future. I don't say better future. Not right yet, because better futures take time to create.
I recall a guy in my field who had worked for Lotus (the computer software company, creator of the 123 spreadsheet). He wanted to go out on his own and had created a whole software suite for collaboration based on his experiences developing first for Lotus and later for IBM. He asked the community the best way to get his product "out there", so he could commoditise is and sell it.
I replied to his post with quite a long one telling him it was a ten year journey and he had to be as much politician as developer if he wanted to achieve what he desired. It was not a popular response as "everyone" was getting rich quick off the Internet.
What was the eventual outcome? A decade after I wrote that post he sold his company that he had spent the last decade creating. Sold for hundreds of millions. He followed almost exactly the path I outlined. Why? Am I prescient? No I'm not prescient. It was the only possible way that he could do what he had set out to do, it was obvious if you chose to look.
So, after digressing, what was the point of those last few paragraphs? We now have a generation of Internet wannabies. The number of kids sitting at home living in lala land praying to "make it big" with just one computer game, are legion.
We, at least, should know better. Good results to bad questions take time and one hell of a lot more effort than you really want to put in. But if you put the effort in the reward is there. Brexit will take 2 years from March. The Rise of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will take a lot longer. But. Done properly. Will net a much better result.