Oh . Yes . Wait , no ! Wait , actually yeah . <| sep |> McCaw and McGee I like this <| sep |> Wolfgang Schuble has not been . Of course he hasn ' t , he ' s the German finance minister and , unlike ours , actually has an education in economics . He ' s employed to deal with numbers on a macroeconomic basis and that ' s where the major upheaval of Brexit is going to happen once Article 50 is enacted . We ' ve had billions wiped off our economy since the referendum and Brexit hasn ' t even happened yet . Other countries would be absolutely foolish not to protect themselves as best they ' re able . Imagine California unilaterally seceding from the Union after years of vocal westcoast rhetoric and populism with no plan in place to account for the massive economic loss this will bring both California and the rest of the US . The idea that Oregon , Nevada and New York would be sat there going Please , don ' t worry about us ! Take those bases , cities , media centres , financial centres , farmland and infrastructure and billions of dollars ! is completely ridiculous . We knew this was coming because this is how we ' d do it too . This is how it is done . Why do you think Third World Debt is still a thing , demanded from countries with no hope of ever paying the interest nevermind the debt ?