That makes me think of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who said: “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach 5/6  BIS central bankers' speeches  them to long for the endless immensity of the sea”.
It seems that many people in the UK indeed long for the endless immensity of the sea. To them it stands for independence from the EU and for freedom. However, building a ship and sailing the seven seas still requires collecting wood and assigning tasks and work.