[El Car]

El Car, I'm glad that I was one of the 10% who didn't use xenophobia nor racism as their reason for voting Leave.

The UK is a net contributor to the EU (we're still in it for years to come), so that money should now be able to be used for the UK's benefit - tax cuts, funding house-building, whatever. Of course, this depends on politicians, so don't hold your breath.

As far as immigration is concerned, I was much more interested in the ideal of being able to expel hate-filled undesirables from this country, instead of having the European Court telling us we couldn't do it.

As usual, there will be winners and losers, but that applies to everything. I've been a UK taxpayer under Conservative and Labour governments and before and after the Common Market/EU and I've always managed to have a car, a house and an annual holiday. Perhaps I'm luckier than most, but we Brits tend to get on with it and manage the best we can.

As far as the result is concerned, that's democracy at work. The ballot box rules and I for one didn't need to be cajoled into voting by one side or the other.

The UK is a net contributor in terms of direct contributions less receipts to the government and UK NGOs of usually around £2bn a year, but the economic benefit of being in the EU is around £70bn a year on average. Our net contribution is a premium we pay to gain access to that, and now we'll lose the lot with no assurance of being able to gain those benefits independently.

Anyway, too late to argue the merits of either side now, our bed's made.