It's not really that similar, we've had close ties with Europe for many years and the sheer number of non-British Europeans living in the UK doing essential jobs is huge. A lot of those of guys face the prospect of being booted out. On the flip side, and I know several folk who are in this boat, are Brits who live on the continent who face the prospect of of being booted out of Europe.
Trade and education links are huge and we've already seen a fair few companies who have left or will leave the UK should Brexit be finalized.
Most of the Anti-European politicians pointed out the money that would be saved and reinvested in things like the NHS. None of this looks likely to happen, fishing from what I gather is largely unchanged and people forget/chose to ignore the huge amount of Urban redevelopment that was funded through Europe.
Most people who voted for Brexit did so because they were made to feel afraid, (family members have freely admitted to this), and failed to realize that most of the countries woes was down to a series of inept UK governments and not Europe.
Errr nope, thats not the case at all