re: #260 Targetpractice

What the Brexit crowd assumed (and the Tories discovered was bullshit) was that they didn’t need to deal with the “elites” in Brussels, they could just bypass them and go straight to Berlin, to Paris, to Rome, and pressure the individual states of the EU to give them beneficial deals or at least keep things consistent with the existing status quo.

Individual EU states don’t do that, that is why they are in the EU; to negotiate as a bloc.

But Britain somehow thought that it pulled a lot more weight and failed to see that the EU needed to set a harsh example to anyone else thinking about leaving, namely, no free movements of goods and capital without similar free movement of people.