Brexit

[bitermer]

It was always going to be a clusterfuck. The brexiteers used the notion of British exceptionalism to convince the people they could somehow be better off without the EU. No surprise the EU is not going to give the UK any slack on the exit terms. Why should they?

The EU certainly has many structural issues but simply throwing in the towel without consideration of the extent of the consequences is really going to hurt the average citizen. Completely reckless and irresponsible politics by May, Boris etc. Nobody forced them to act upon the outcome of the nonbinding referendum, it was an incredibly shortsighted means of gaining a little political capital at the time. It'd be very interesting to see how opinion has shifted not just now but in another 6 months as the Brexit is about to be enacted.