The grand fallacy of Brexit was that only if they(far right and far left) can get rid of EU, they will be able to make UK a pure capitalist utopia or pure socia

The grand fallacy of Brexit was that only if they(far right and far left) can get rid of EU, they will be able to make UK a pure capitalist utopia or pure socialist utopia. For the far-left, EU was this neo-liberal globalist org that won't let them turn Communist and for the far-right EU was this socialist bunch that won't let them do their thing in the name of protecting human rights and the environment. The horseshoe phenomenon helps with gathering the numbers necessary to break something but it makes it impossible to build anything. The Tories, that turned far-right, found out that just because you won the elections and EU is no more it does't mean that you can drop all the laws, regulations, taxes and public services because the country still has leftist and centrists. The next elections the Labour will find out that just because you win the elections and the EU is no more, you can't just nationalise everything and expand the government because a significant portion of the population does want free market economy and low taxes. As a result, what Brexit did was only to complicate bureaucracy and reduce the talent pool by erecting barriers with their closest neighbours. No positives, only negatives. Anything positive that happened after Brexit could have been done within EU anyway. Why? For two reasons: either it's allowed within EU or you can change the EU law because you are the EU. Yep, that't the other tragic fallacy about EU: That EU is some 3rd party organisation that you subscribe and consume. In reality, EU is made of its members and the people in "Brussels" are not some Belgians cranking out laws and regulations but British among others and great deal of EU laws are actually made by the British themselves. It's simply mathematically impossible for UK to be better off outside the EU. It can be good for some, though.