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At the risk of another downvote-avalanche in this uncritical echo chamber of anti-brexitism, I'll say that I still think it was a self-fulfilling prophecy. I wa
by ghusto 3y ago
At the risk of another downvote-avalanche in this uncritical echo chamber of anti-brexitism, I'll say that I still think it was a self-fulfilling prophecy. I was against the whole thing in the beginning, but there's no reason that it couldn't have worked out well for the UK, and where they're at now was in no way inevitable.
No, I don't think there's some deep state conspiracy to make it fail. That wouldn't make sense, since nobody gains. I do think that the self-defeating pessimism of the British has a big part to play though.
- dukeyukey 3y agoI'll agree with you. I'm solidly anti-Brexit but of all the EU members I think we had the best shot at it. "Only" about half our trade is with the EU, which is a lot, but less than pretty much every other member. I thought, maybe if we had a competent government with an idea of what post-EU Britain could be it would work out basically ok. That did not happen.
- dave1999x 3y agoI agree. It's somewhat the ineptitude of the Tories. For example, they could have sorted out the border; not the small boats but the red tape that it now takes to import and export.