Yeah I find it strange that the EU technocrats believed and still do believe that Brexit was a UK problem. It was a wholesale failure of the EU project, even ju

Yeah I find it strange that the EU technocrats believed and still do believe that Brexit was a UK problem. It was a wholesale failure of the EU project, even just at the level of truly convincing people that it was worthwhile and good for them, when there was a (slight) majority in the UK who didn't believe that when the choice was put to them. Those that run the EU seem to be blinkered to the idea that other people might not agree with their full-speed-ahead mission of federalism. They were openly laughing at Nigel Farage (not a fan of him but...) in the EU parliament, like laughing out loud to his face in public, when he announced that he was going to get the UK to leave. They couldn't even conceptualise such an event. Now nobody is laughing, and it has been labelled as simply a British problem. Jean Baudrillard summed it up brilliantly in responding to the 2005 referendum in France that voted 'non' to the Lisbon treaty, which again, they couldn't believe at the time. But then they just rewrote the treaty in a different form and passed it anyway, almost in whole. Same sentiment from Baudrillard applies to the Brexit referendum, and ongoing today: Baudrillard - Holy Europe (2005): https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii33/articles/jean-baudrillard-holy-europe https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii33/articles/jean-baudrill...