I've got news for you, most brexiteers do know Britain's place in the world and its nothing to do with 'Prestigious thinking', that's what we fool foreigners with. Yes, we do 'pomp and circumstance' very well, but that's all it is now a legacy of the past, but one that still brings millions of people and billions of dollars/euros and pounds into Britain and this will continue.
Britain has always been a trading nation, maybe its the island mentality and at times admittedly we have been skating on the edges. Some of our most famous traders e.g. Francis Drake was also (and as far as the Spanish were concerned) a Privateer/Buccaneer, possible even a Pirate. Our history is littered with massive successes and quite a few spectacular failures. We have to now return to that indomitable spirit, of course we cannot send gun boats into foreign ports anymore, demanding trade, but we have innate capabilities that have been dormant for years and we need those to the fore now.
Its true, certainly in the short term, if the EU 'cuts up rough', that Brexit might turn out to be another glorious failure, but equally it could (even Mark Carney agreed, at last) turn into a massive success. If I was a youngster now with my life in front of me I would be full of excitement, at the opportunities Brexit will bring, I would, for example, be looking to master Mandarin Chinese, or Korean, or other Asian languages, seeking to find what I'm good at and make a start on a career, even if that means starting off flipping burgers at McDonalds (they are a global player are they not), look, listen and learn, much better rather than racking up debt at some third rate University taking 'mickey mouse' degrees, that wouldn't even get you through the door of Disney World!
We need the freedom of being outside the monolithic EU, the EU has done nothing for young people under 25, just look at the levels of unemployment in many southern countries in particular, we should and will chase the pound/dollar/euro (even)! At home build more houses, as Theresa has said, that people can afford, sort out profligate employers, sort out the carpet-baggers, get the infrastructure development moving up a gear, improve on what we've got, design and build new what we haven't. Invest heavily in people (not the mickey mouse stuff) good quality training for where there are shortages, especially if all the EU citizens who are doing such jobs, as we are regularly told, will head for the hills. Abroad, we need to seek out those who want to trade, make sure we can satisfy their needs, if we can't, then don't waste their time or ours, pretending that we can. Get our best and brightest sales people 'front and centre', invest in their skills and attributes, give them better rewards than just shifting money around (although we will still do that as well)
Of course Jeremy is promising a lot of this as well, but he sees the 'dead-hand' of the state, spending money, but not earning it, although we hear from some on these posts that he won't make the mistakes of his Socialist forefathers in the kind of nationalisation he brings in...no doubt he will want to make his own! But I don't really want to knock Jeremy, he believes in his rubbish and he is up front about that, the fact he is an Arsenal supporter tells you everything you need to know!
The point is fundamentally brexiteers believe Britain is capable, yes, maybe we won't sit at the top table anymore, but then we won't have to send our young men and women to die in wars someone else got us into because we are a 'prestigious country', we won't have to pay large sums to keep others going, whose economies are almost basket-cases now but they won't do anything about it, because we will help, because we are not now a 'prestigious country'.
The sooner we are out the better.
