I have no sympathy for them, they should have done their due diligence.
Brexit overall is just a crazy thing.
1. I never thought the government did enough to make it clear to people the full impacts of what it would mean
2. People were just down right dumb and did indeed not fully understand the impacts. Read stories of people campaigning on the streets for it, now out of a job, or having issues with family or a second home or business in the EU that now is f'ed and so on.
3. Government pressed forward and when it was clear people voted for something they did not know what they were voting for did not look to check on that. I bet a second vote would have had a very different result.
This is another case of the impacts people just did think about. There are a lot of people in France, Spain and like with small restaurants and like at common British holiday locations in those countries that if are not gone under due to COVID will be impacted as well as the people living there.
Many goods will also go up in price and while France and England are supposedly doing deals in terms of travel with the channel tunnel and ferries those booze trips for many Birts will not be the same.