We’ve written often about the United Kingdom’s struggles to normalize the process of leaving membership in the European Union, something a slender majority of its voters agreed they supported. As they get closer to the end-of-March date when it is scheduled to happen, with no agreement yet approved by Parliament, some are getting a bit frantic.
This CNN story is an example of those seeing a disaster in the making. Others think all the worry is another Y2K-style nothingburger, believing things won’t get awful and life will go on. My personal crystal ball remains cloudy with regard to Brexit, if forced to guess I’d estimate a moderate degree of disruption but no giant recession.
At some point the English (term used intentionally) have to tell the Northern Irish they can’t have it both ways. Either they’re Brits and will put up with border controls at their border with the Republic of Ireland, or they’re some sort of crypto-Europeans who exist in the EU but halfway out of the U.K. If they’re all that fond of the Republic maybe they should join up and be done with it.
