There is literally no way in which a nation which is already well in its post Empire decay period can improve its lot by cutting ties with its natural partners, more so if it’s doing it to get closer ties with another nation now entering its own post Empire decay period.

Maybe if the UK was an “up and coming” young nation not hobbled by a thick web of cronyism, nepotism and socially and culturally decaying lazy elites more worried about maintaining their privileges and not being caught diddling children, than about making shit happen, and a population that in their most believes that “people should know their place”, this stupid, stupid idea might actually not hinder Britain’s progress too much, but for this walking corpse of a once mighty nation, cutting themselves from a “together we’re stronger” group like that isn’t going to end well.

Then again, if Britain wasn’t a decaying corpse I doubt the idea of Brexit would even come to be, much less gain enough votes to pass, as the required mix of societal calcification, desperation and the masses having long been manipulated into compliance and looking for the enemy outside rather than the enemy within, wouldn’t be there, so those many decades of “blame the EU” by politicians and the Press would not be there, a Tory politician would not believe he could boost himself in the polls by running a referendum to leave the EU and in such a referendum it would not be possible to convince enough people that they would be better of the country left the EU.