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If these type of stories are designed to try and get Leave voters to think they've made a mistake, it won't work.
Leave voters knew there would be an economic hit and were willing to take that hit personally, so much was their dislike of the EU.
Honest question: did people voting for Brexit even know what they were actually voting for? I recall that the top Google search in the UK the day after they passed the bill(?) for Brexit was “what is brexit”.
A lot of leave voters were so sure that remain would win that they disregarded the negative consequences because they wouldn't actually happen. They voted leave to show that they weren't happy with the status quo.