It's not necessarily a bad thing, Dave

After his non-event deal with the EU, David Cameron immediately started to bang on about a “leap in the dark” as the main plank of his Project Fear. But let us not forget that Christopher Columbus took a leap into the dark when he went adventuring across the Atlantic. Marco Polo took another when he followed the Silk Road to China.
    In fact, history is full of instances of people who did very well out of taking a leap into the dark and heading for the places where the hand of Man had never set foot. Or their tribe had never ventured.