"The EU, for all it’s flaws and silly rules is single greatest thing to happen to Europe." Norway and Switzerland have some words for you. More likely just th

"The EU, for all it’s flaws and silly rules is single greatest thing to happen to Europe." Norway and Switzerland have some words for you. More likely just the EEC was the 'greatest thing' and the EU, essentially the political version, is possibly a negative drag. There's not much indication that the trade-plus-politics version of Europe is any better than the 'mostly trade' version. "But all those good things are only apparent when taken away, the UK is only just now learning that. " Like the ability to give it's population lifesaving vaccines months faster than the EU? It will take a decade before we know which actions between EU and UK were specifically problematic, my bet is that it's mostly going to be a wash but it's hard to measure the geopolitical effect and things like leverage on trade - but even there, there might be an EEC-like way to do that. Finally, it'd be much less controversial, as there are almost no skeptics of the free market.