The Malta Independent spoke to two British couples to ask for their reaction to the Brexit result. We found that three out of four were 'chuffed' by the result in the name of 'taking their country back'; this despite knowing that it will "cost us in the short-term", as one of the Britons put it.

The first couple was from Yorkshire and they called it "an absolutely brilliant result" and "what we were hoping for." They agreed that being in the EU was a "nightmare" citing too many regulations and being governed by politicians they never voted for in the first place. The first woman ending with a joke saying, "We should be like the French and ignore them."

A vote to leave is a vote away from the "bureaucrats, the money-men, the city-slickers," said one of the people warning that "the other countries will follow". In answer to the Sterling falling up to 10 percent in the first day, one of the speakers put it down as just the "money-men playing their games" adding that he was sure it would come back.

The second couple was from the North West near Manchester, the wife saying that she voted to remain because she knew what she was into and had no idea what was going to happen now. Her husband, of different political opinion, said that Britain had to "get away from European bureaucracy which was stifling our enterprise."

Just under 17 and a half million people voted in favour of leaving the EU last Thursday with the 'leave' campaign winning with 51.9 percent. Immediately following the result, France and Holland were said to potentially be the next countries to consider leaving. A number of politicians from other EU countries are now pushing for their own chance to leave; including in Greece, Italy, Finland, Denmark and Austria.