I was being generous since the political folks I follow in the UK are reporting at least a decade to right the ship to anything navigable sailing back into the Euro-zone. So yeah, optimistic thinking and staying away from those Vegas odds-takers. :-)

One has to wonder, possibly a once lauded educated public in the UK, did they somehow forget to take geography in their schools?

I think, besides being retired, I got interested in the whole UK Brexit conundrum due to your statement in your Medium profile summary, Boris the Brexit clown, and Trump the absolute incurable con man, that all happened. My ancestors are from England, what have we evolved into???