Where now? Far better border control and and the return of visas for all!

That said there are boundless opportunities here for Australia? With the right kind of economic migrants persuaded to along with their sizable bank balances, super entitlements and gold standard health insurance to migrate here to avoid the promised wealth tax most of Europe seems to be considering?

We could massively encourage that along with high tech manufacture to relocate here, with very doable, very low cost energy and a completely revamped tax system finally made free of all parasitic and all other onerously costly, completely unproductive practice! [Well somebody has to bleed us!?]

These very doable two are how we set australia up for a far better future and bulwarked against the economic (tsunamis) shock waves that have no other choice than come, given the massive (pass the parcel) debt levels washing around through much of the northern hemisphere!

And given that fact, we really do need to guard against an intended influx of debt laden speculators, who add nothing but their price gouged profit demands, as they seek along with a myriad of other impossible dreams to trade out of trouble?

Always providing they can find some gullible mugs like still well resourced and economically sound target economies to pick up the can and carry it for them?

Roll up roll up. A hole in the head anyone? You know you need one like there's no tomorrow? And think, Australia has always needed foreign funds! Sign on the dotted line,thanks. There's one born every five minutes!
Alan B.

If the benefits of trade and other agreements between Britain and Europe were as manifest as the Remain campaigners claimed then there would have been no need for a referendum. The lesson from all this is that for a state to legitimately surrender its sovereignty, it should have a very clear mandate from a large majority of its citizens. If the UK ever had that mandate, it has now been withdrawn.

only genrations of dumbed down people could want an unelected body of socialist to tell them how to run their countries. Any suggestions for the empty offices in Brussels left by overpaid bureacrats?

Today’s European Union bears little resemblance to the post-war European unification project pursued by statesmen like Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman of France and Alcide de Gasperi of Italy. They didn’t want a European Union, but a European Community, in which European nations would work together as partners to achieve peace and prosperity, rather than be subordinated to a small clique of bureaucrats.

Since the Maastricht Treaty (1993) and the Lisbon Treaty (2009), the European Union has become a supranational super state in which the interests of a small group of bureaucrats trump those of the people.

If the European Union wants to survive, it must return to its founding principles. The model of cooperation rather than domination worked in Western Europe during the early post-war era.
But the current situation, in which two-thirds of EU member states’ legislation is made in Brussels, only alienates Europeans and will provoke even more Euroskepticism.

"It is too early to tell exactly what difference the Brexit decision in the UK might have on these wider pubic views within the EU."

"Pubic views within the EU": Freudian slip?

European unification after WWII was a great idea so long as those who were trying to implement it respected Europe’s Christian roots as a unifying factor (see e.g. J. Chaplin, G. Wilton, God and the EU: Retrieving the Christian Inspirations of the European Project , Routledge Dec. 2015), notwithstanding the frequent violations of these values in European history that culminated in Holocaust and other atrocities of WWII.

This great idea is now struggling to survive only a few decades after Christianity - as a unifying historical, cultural and moral factor going beyond mere religion - was abandoned and replaced by what in German is officially called Wertegemeinschaft, i.e. Community of values (that keep on being added to), where the religious vacuum is being gradually filled by Islam.

This is certainly not the main cause of the decline of EU but is it just a coincidence?

It's all very well to bag and blame Europe for perceived ills, seems to be the conservative line of both left and right (especially in older voting demographics), but this does not abrogate the need for leadership amongst British conservatives.

Meanwhile it deflects attention from the primary issue, Britain's former conservative leadership on the EU/referendum had no policy or plans for Brexit, now trying to organise leadership and like EU is asking, when is the Article 50 going to be activated, that's what the UK wants isn't it?

EU is implying that UK media and politicans has been demonising and dog whistling on identity, race, govt. and Europe for decades, so don't expect an easy ride.... who ever the PM will be, they will need strong knee pads for begging EU states not to hurt too much....

As an Irish friend said, Britain, or more the case declining little England and its elites, are delusional, and seem more than happy to be led on by anglo nativists in media, politics and academia.....

One lesson conservatives can draw from this self inflicted chaos, be very careful about being led to committing to random targets on NOM, immigration etc., and referenda, i.e. led or pushed down a cul de sac where you become 'wedged'.

'Margaret Thatcher (quoting Clement Attlee approvingly) once referred to referendums as ‘a device for dictators and demagogues’. They reduce complicated issues down to simplistic ‘yes/no’ questions. They allow elected representatives to abrogate responsibility. They weaken the constitutional protection of minorities and can lead to a ‘tyranny of the majority’.'

Time for conservatives to get a spine and start acting like leaders vs fearful followers.....

What do you think is going to be with property markets in the UK and the EU? I believe in the slight fall of prices in England and Spain. Spain will suffer a wane of demand for real estate from British buyers who were extremely active in this market. And in London the weak pound will play its part to attract new foreign investors (according to brokers' forecasts https://tranio.com/united-kingdom/news/real-estate-markets-could-wobble-as-uk-votes-to-leave-the-eu_5152/, pay attention to the most interesting part "the real estate market in Britain may benefit from heightened foreign interest")