I like your view of it as a beta. I've talked about this brexit as a "refactoring". The EU is a code base that grew quickly and accrued a great deal of cruft

I like your view of it as a beta. I've talked about this brexit as a "refactoring". The EU is a code base that grew quickly and accrued a great deal of cruft in a short amount of time. The UK is simply taking their module of functions and breaking them out of the spaghetti EU behemoth. Rather than tight coupling to the rest of the EU code base, they'll be creating new and specific interfaces.