> why? "How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly." - Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises UK politics became intellectually bankrupt in

> why? "How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly." - Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises UK politics became intellectually bankrupt in 2016. Promises no longer needed to have a connection to reality. Isolationism could be sold as "pro-growth" etc. The disconnect has been growing gradually. The voters loved the pie-in-the-sky promises. So each leader's promises were more unrealistic than the last. They selected for ever more ideological belief, over pragmatism and admitting the downsides of choices. But who would be holding the can when the bill came due? The responses that "She was terrible" are not wrong, but you have to also ask why such a charmless, incompetent-and-unaware-of-it character came to be in power. This is the culmination of the Brexit ideology, make no mistake. This is the "Suddenly" phase.