For those beyond Brussels and London, maybe just starting to tune in,
here’s some advice. Let go of any illusions that this drama is about
trade protocols, residency rights or the status of the Irish border. The
histrionics going on in the United Kingdom aren't even really about its
impending departure from the European Union — or about Prime Minister
Theresa May’s tenuous attempts to cling to power.
Brexit is the story of a proud former imperial power undergoing a
mid-life crisis. The rest of the world is left listening to Britain’s
therapy session as they drone on about their ex-spouse, the EU: When
will they stop talking and just move on?
The promise of Brexit at the time it narrowly passed in a national
referendum in June of 2016 was that it was a way for Britain to feel big
again — no longer hectored by the EU bureaucracy in Brussels, no longer
treated as just one of 28 members in an unwieldy confederacy..
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