"Straight up lied"
-meaning they made a few claims that encompassed both all and only part being included in their usage of resources.
"old screwed the young"
-Some can regard as giving them the opportunity to have a country with 100% control rather than partial control in a council that decides things for their needs based on other country's performance/needs.
Already there are trade deals being made with countries in the EU (ones which can now be made without the EU limitations put in place by both parties as we now can be classed as an outside member and have access to things we couldn't before), the stock market is already rebounding and resettling and even the massive panic attack people have is dying down.
Honestly this is a good thing to happen as at worse this is an experiment to get the EU to get it's act together and actually do something about it's decline, which has been happening for years, even before the Greece thing happened. At best the UK becomes stronger as even as we're the 6th economy in the world (previously fifth) we have the freedom to do things we could not do in the EU, and those trade deals "lost" will be regained as the trade deals previously held were just as necessary for the countries they were with as they were with us. And in reality we're only competing with France and Germany in the EU and those are the two keeping it afloat at the moment. And now we don't have to pay in to keep hem afloat as well. We'll take that money and put it into our own account.
And this is even if the potential EU split rumblings form other countries isn't a thing.
First of all don't get me wrong, I'm happy that the UK decided to "Reclaim their borders" and "Retake their independence" because you did democratically vote on that. But all I am saying is that things aren't going to be as easy as you think it will be... and am bringing up the very real implications of the UK's actions to leave the EU.
Leave politicians came out one after the other saying "We won't put the 350m into the NHS", "There will be more immigrants than we advertised", "We won't activate Article 50 immediately". Those were the main selling points of leave to the populace, as can be seen by the world clouds conducted off of the exit polls at the booths.
On the old screwing the young front, all this means is that in 20 years when 40-60 is 60-80 and 60-80 is dead that the people left alive will be the ones who voted overwhelmingly to stay, and you will likely see another vote to rejoin whatever the EU has become.
I would agree with you if the referendum was a Binding Referendum, but the EU Referendum was a Non-binding referendum. That means that unless Parliament decides to go along with it, it legally has to be treated as an opinion poll. That means that until Article 50 is launched, the UK is still a part of the EU and has to abide by EU laws, and the EU at the time is currently working to enforce that because once Article 50 is launched it only benefits the EU. Trade Deals usually take years to come to an agreement on. Timelines for these start at half a decade and only go up from there unless you are negotiating from a position of a major power.
Take for example that the USA and Canada have been trying to get an agreement with the EU for upwards of half a decade now and even then there is no sign of it coming to a close anytime soon unless somebody budges on some essentials (Mainly around Visa's and protectionist quotas). In the USA's case, they are the #1 world economy and in Canada's the #10. Meanwhile the EU is the #2 Economy. Given that the UK is #6, how can the UK expect to get anywhere within 2 years when the US couldn't in over double that time span while being in a higher position of power than the EU
Don't forget that the EU is also a political organization, this is the first time a nation will be leaving through Article 50 so they are going to make an example out of the UK to deter anybody else from leaving. If they play hardball until your hard 2 year limit hits the clock, the EU wins because the UK will be forced to trade under the World Trade Organization... which doesn't allow trade of several of the industries which makes up the UK's top sectors.
When it comes to the USA, Obama came out himself and stated that the UK as an independent won't be at the top of their priority list because they will now have to renegotiate their EU-US trade agreement to make up for the fact that it doesn't include the UK. Same with Canada... which in our case us waiting until the UK is desperate at the end of the 2 year mark allows us to punch way above our economic weight.
Now you are right that the EU needs the UK, just as the UK needs the EU economically, but the EU can afford to take a temporary hit in order to get a better deal than the UK can when they suddenly are found in a position of needing to remake all of their deals
On the Scotland front, the news coming from the EU is that they are divided on that font. One day they are saying that Scotland would be fast tracked into the EU, the next they are saying that Scotland will have to go through the process. Realistically, the end result will be somewhere in the middle since its a unique event, and either way nothing stops Scotland from implementing the EU laws and the Euro before they are officially allowed back into the EU.
On the Ireland front, they are already within the EU so a reunified Ireland if it were to happen doesn't have that much in its way.
Anyhow, the biggest thing to come from that would be that suddenly the UK will now have to put billions into border patrolling the new UK/Scotland border and upgrading borders along the Northern Ireland/Ireland Border because the UK now will need to patrol and setup border stations to ensure that EU Citizens aren't getting into the UK without going through customs.
Now lastly, and the most telling is that now that David Cameron resigned and tossed the ball to his successors, suddenly even the most staunch leave politicians have begun to backtrack on their support for leaving the EU. Instead of talking about activating Article 50 as they should be following that vote, they are talking about trying to negotiate a better deal with the EU so they can presumably hold a second referendum on leaving or taking the new deal, if they can even get one.