It seems to me that the problem with our internal media is that they believe anything negative and shout it out as loud as possible. The assumption of the pound tanking was based largely on the likelihood of there being no free trade agreement, but there is. Also, the navel gazers look solely at our internal problems and assume that other nations are in a better position, which they are not. France, Germany, Japan, USA, all have the same or worse structural defects, but the media ignore them, preferring to knock the UK. We may not feel it, but much kudos has been gained by the UK's stand against the EU and an agreement worth £650bn cannot be ignored. There are sectors where the fight still has to be fought such as that for the financial centre, but the Pound is still one of the most trusted currencies in the world and in hard times is still considered a safe place to keep your money, wherever you are. Additionally, we constantly hear that that loosing the EU financial dealings is a disaster when it will be no more than a hiccup. Yes, 80% of our trade is through the city, but less than 20% of that is via the EU, so we would have to loose all the 16% of our financial trade with the EU to feel that drop when many of the EU financial centres do not have the muscle to deal, particularly in currency where the city is the largest market in the world, now bolstered by being the worlds largest market in the Renminbi (Chinese currency) and set to boom.
Brexit alone might have been a problem, but Coronavirus has thrown all the chips back on the table looking for an enterprising nation to scoop up the Lions share. Don't listen to the doomsters, they are usually foreign and want the best bit for themselves, so knocking the UK is a way to do it, just don't believe our media when they moan all is lost, it's not, it is simply there to be won.
Mike.X