I’ve been asked to explain Brexit as I see it, which I will do as straightforwardly yet non-specifically as possible. Events are moving fast: by the time you read this Britain could be out of the European Union, stuck in the EU or floating on a raft in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
In 2016, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland voted to leave the EU. That was the easy bit. The next question was, how do we get out? The choice was binary: 1) we leave swiftly and cleanly and endure some pain or 2) we take our time and compromise some of the expectations raised in the referendum. The Conservative government of Theresa May went for option 2 but didn’t really warn the public or reach out to its potential critics (she is, in the words of a colleague, a “bloody difficult woman”).
