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Sure, but companies, people, investors... they make these decisions daily, in huge numbers. Those decisions, since Thursday, are no longer based on sound long-term assumptions. But if you need to make those decisions, it's now safer to make them based on a different countries' political and economic stability.
Velocio
Of course companies are leaving, investment is leaving, people are already applying for citizenship elsewhere.
It takes a long time, and a huge effort, to build a prosperous future, and that's not possible if you're in a country that has political uncertainty, economic uncertainty. How can one make a decision for the next 10 or 20 years, when as far as you can see with certainty is 3 months?
Hell, right now... Europe looks incredibly stable compared to the UK. We've had the Scotland referendum, a shock general election, and this EU referendum in a matter of years... we look anything but stable. Europe on the other hand, whilst each country appears unstable close-up, the big picture of Europe is incredibly stable.
Even if we don't exit, it will take decades just to recover from this.