Brexit: Where now for the UK academy?

I think it's foolish- or disingenuous- to expect that Brexit's progress will receive any support from former remainers, or new generations of voters, or most of academia (however much propoganda they are fed). It's basically saying, support nationalist populism or 19th C Toryism, despite everything history and scholarship tells us about where this leads. Whatever happened to speaking truth to power, especially when power is making veiled and vacuous threats against those who don't 'get behind the nation'? It seems highly unlikely that such regression can succeed: instead it seems clear there will be a long struggle and more turmoil if you take a look at the long-standing evidence. It's also hard to imagine that British academia will be good place to weather this storm and pursue serious research.

Why should I respect people who have mocked me relentlessly for being on the "losing" side, told me to "accept my defeat" and just "give up", have no respect for the laws that their own team have broken or bent in order to bring about their utopia, have no respect for evidence, or liberal democratic institutions? A group of people who are (in my experience) driven by bitterness, senility, or good-old-fashioned simple racism. A group of people trying to get an expletive-laden, disrespectful song to #1 in the charts for Brexit day as a last two fingers up to the EU, whose commander-in-chief Farage was thrown out of the EU parliament on his last day for saying that he "hated" the EU? Why on Earth should I show these people any respect? They deserve derision. I will save my respect for the next generation.

I remain a European even if, as a UK citizen, my EU citizenship is to be removed from me against my will tomorrow night. Surely it is my right to choose my allegiance rather than have it dictated to me by others?

I voted remain but I am disappointed by the extreme voices of both sides of this argument, of which only one side seems to be represented here. Sadly the two sides at this level seem not to have risen above insult and I my disappointment is greater that these contributions are supposed to come from those whose status within society should reflect a more measured response to a situation they can o longer affect. In the final analysis, whether you like it or not, whether you think one side or the other lied, (and both did) it is how democracy works. Unless what I am witnessing here is some desire to ensure only people of a certain level of education should be allowed to vote or make decisions.

One big hurdle: Tuition fees. ie. St Andrews University. -. Scotts & EU nationals, 1,820 GBP. -. England, Wales & N. Ireland, 9,250 GBP. -. Rest of the world, 23,910 GBP. No EU national is going to study in UK universities with such a high degree of uncertainty. Source: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/students/money/fees/feestable/

Re. tuition fees... There are plenty of universities on the continent what now have courses in English. Their standards are equal, if not superior, to many UK universities. They also happen to be free or much, much cheaper than UK degrees. UK universities will end up relying more and more on Asian and African students; provided they also don't eventually decide to invest their money elsewhere. With grade inflation and commodification, the reputational value of a degree from the UK will decrease. "Rest of the world" students may prefer to go elsewhere. But of course, this is just a speculation and the shift won't happen rapidly. The main change will be the loss of EU students (this has started already).