True.
And bet they are dead on the money concerning the likelihood of the cost being possibly staggeringly higher due to as yet unforeseen issues.

Same kind of trajectory of cost for Quebec to leave Canada....
Initially the cost estimated was ghastly...
it being a ballpark estimate without looking at the impact and associated costs of disentanglement...
but then the economic and financial scientists weighed in with their findings...on ALL the associated costs which have to bear ...and the costs started climbing.

In the end...
our separatists started realizing the costs...
and were stating that they wouldn't need to mint their own money...
they could just use Canada's currency...
hahaahaha
and that Quebec wouldn't pay for the costs of separation...
Canada would...
hahahahaha
and we would still be giving them federal monies to keep operating ...their now fiefdom....
hahaahaha
And of course they voiced that the US would be supportive in trade and politics with them once separated...
haahahaha..
(the US took a very wide berth around this topic of endorsing the division and disruption ..on so many levels...of their neighbour to the north...stating that separation did not a country make...)

and..
Well ...you can imagine how popular these ideas were in the rest of Canada...
And people could see the madness first hand of the situation.

I am not saying the history of Quebec-Canada Separation ...and how it fell apart is the same as Brexit.

But the cost similarities with intricately twined policy, finances and economy and trade....
well...
the cost for Quebec to separate was probably far cheaper and less damaging than Brexit will be.



And I don't envy whoever ends up paying the brexit bill.

Oh...
wait...
silly me...

it won't be any segment of the economy that can afford it...

it will be the taxpayer of course ..