Now that the dust is starting to settle. I think it's important to think about what has just transpired in this country. This country, which is an island, has decided to leave a trading bloc which offered it tariff free trade with its largest trading partner in order to “take back the country”. In other words a vain effort to close the borders of the country and control immigration.

After the Scottish referendum I felt as if Scotland was better off for the debate. After the result I was filled with despair…for the first time in my life. I was thinking about those who believed in independence all their life who must have been feeling distraught but, due to the debate Scotland was forever changed. The complacent status quo had already begun to lose its grip and while we did not win the referendum we changed the face of Scottish politics.

I cannot say that I feel the same after this seismic shift in global politics.

This referendum was won on one idea. “Keep them out”.

Walking on the streets of London, I don’t feel the potential energy gathering. I see Zone One carrying on as if nothing happened and I see the rest of England celebrating a “liberation”from a far off immigrant tyranny.

I see Nigel Farage reneging on his £350 million NHS claim. I see Boris Johnson scared.

I see a UK that does not know what tomorrow will bring and a UK that does not know who will deliver that future.

Tonight as I was walking home I decided to pick up an orange. It's something that I do almost every night and, almost every night, one of the many corner shops have nice, large oranges for me to buy.

Tonight those oranges were not there and I was forced to consider the following.

In two years and three months, the U.K. will leave the European Union. Right now, every business in the UK can import oranges from, lets say, Spain tariff free and those oranges are bought by consumers at 49p per orange.

Oranges are not native to the UK. In future, a tariff will have to be applied to import fruit to the UK which means my 49p oranges could be 60p, 70p or even £1. Think about other consumables that are not native to the UK. Think about where they come from and think about how much you’d be willing to pay for them.

If you’re not, you should be, because if I was a Spanish orange farmer I’d be thinking about it...a lot.

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