"many in the EU won't be minded to be particularly accommodating now"

Now why would that be the case? We buy more from them than they do from us. Do you really think any shop, or restaurant owner acts in such a manner to put obstacles in the way of a good customer? Bloody idiotic.

Any time anyone from the liberal-left starts wittering on about protecting the NHS you know that they are losing the argument, they invoke it like a lucky charm.

"Then we need to deal with tariffs for each individual country we trade with"

Oh goody if they charge tariffs on our goods and services, does that mean that mean we get to charge tariffs on theirs? And as they sell more to us who collects the more from tariffs us or them?

You've forgotten little things like the problems in Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and France and problems with the Euro - none of them gone away and they are unlikely to in the near future.

Nobody in Europe is going to punish the UK for exercising a right that is specifically mentioned in the Treaty - THE RIGHT OF A STATE TO LEAVE - That may well be way you ideologues would act, cutting your nose off to spite your face, but it is not what reasonable, rational people do.