I think your theory about the wealthy is a bit far fetched. The wealthy that has a business has lost/is losing a lot and still some of those voted for Brexit. It is more about ideology than common sense. One of the main reason is that people can't stand the fact some rules decided by non English people apply to them. A mistake from the EU commission is to meddle in too many things that infringe on the culture of a particular country. This problem of "ideology" vs fact or common sense is becoming quite tiresome as it applies to so many things these days. For example in the energy sector which is now costing us greatly...