Delays and increased costs in the movement of people and goods. No protection for financial services. A new border of sorts between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. New ammunition supporting the Scottish independence movement. Lost heft and expertise in negotiating trade agreements. There’s no doubt about it: the UK is a big loser with Brexit. The economic and political costs will be felt immediately, and for decades to come.
But the EU loses, too. The UK was a voice for liberal democracy and free trade in an entity in which these ideas are now in peril. The EU will miss it as a bridge to the US. The British net financial contribution is now gone, and will have to be made up somewhere else. Finally, Brexit is tangible evidence that all is not well with the EU, and that its future is cloudy at best.
So much losing! The man on golf cart should be pleased. He would be if he could take his mind off his own troubles.