Margaret McCartney: Our messy divorce from the EU

The United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union. Now comes the messy, expensive divorce, with the pound in freefall. I am heartbroken. The need for a referendum was unclear. And the campaign was rotten from the start. It was full of misinformation, which failed to correct vital statistics and allowed the population to believe unchecked factual biases.

We are betrayed by false allure and the idea that the EU is to blame for everything bad in the UK. But there will be no extra village fêtes, bunting, or flat beer in Brexit. What does …