I'll try and make this as simple as I can and this doesn't require any links- confirmation comes from the eyes in your head
Britain has voted to leave the EU. That has been brought about because the UK governmnet is unable to tackle the majority of the UK population's concerns about immigration and sovereignty and it is unable to influence the EU in any meaningful way over the direction the EU is taking. For the majority of the UK's population losing those hard won national rights exceeds the frills and baubles that the EU offers.
Most of what the EU offers can be provided with a simple set of multi lateral agreements. These do not require the evolution of the EU into a supra national body. Juncker recently talked about the EU changing direction, even just reverting to a single market, although that was more a publicity stunt than a serious offer to the peoples of Europe. There are a hardcore of federalists in the EU pushing for a totally integrated Europe that the people of Europe do not want
One of the initial goals of the European project was to limit German influence and eliminate right wing extremism
The Euro is seeing Germany come to economically dominate the continent and the EU migration/immigration policy is seeing the rise of the far right across Europe (even in Germany) That is of a lot more concern to me than the loss of an EHIC card
The economic policy is creating a North South divide and the migration policy is creating an East West schism.
The fact the EU has a leader like Viktor Orban and candidates like Wilders and Le Pen is concerning, but they are not the problems- they are symptoms of the problems and as long as the problems exists they won't go away and they can't be dismissed as populists any more. At some stage they will be the future of Europe if the EU does not change tack. The Brexiteers you consider to be reactionary, are pussycats compared to those three and they, like Brexit, are a symptom of the EU's failures.
The only way to reflect the democratic referendum vote is for Britain to leave- it is that simple. The new relationship will be a reflection of Britain's attitude to Europe and hopefully the EU's attitude will reflect the needs of the other people's of Europe. That is democracy in action and exactly how it should work.
Anyone who cannot accept that is no more a liberal thinking person that I can fly in the air. That is every bit as reactionary as the worst of the Brexiteers (and there are some pretty awful people amongst them too)
To dismiss the concerns of those who voted to leave and endorse an institution that is spawning extremism and poverty in Europe is just utter nonsense. Of course there will be a price for leaving the EU, there would be a price for staying, but the cost of staying in an unreformed and unheeding EU was deemed too high by the majority of the UK's population- so out it is regardless of "cost"
As for Scotland- well it has nothing to lose and everything to gain by waiting to see what deal the UK gets with the EU before it decides it's future destiny. The only person who has anything to lose by waiting is Sturgeon, because her calamitous running of Scotland and infantile antics have shown her party incapable of government, and their window of opportunity for Scottish independence is closing rapidly because of that. If you think that her behaviour is in any way designed to safeguard the future of the people of Scotland you are sadly mistaken- she is simply dragging it's reputation through the mud.