that maybe the UK does need to go through the pain of Brexit...Once disaster reality hits, maybe finally the UK England will learn a bit of humility and start to treat other countries with proper respect.
That's Prettybird and Peregrina in agreement, and I've been increasingly resigned to it too.
Sadly it's an increasing Remain stance now.
The 'we won / you lost' contingent have succeeded. The EU xenophobic cabal have simply ingrained their stance, but sadly many of the more reasonable 48% seem defeated. In some cases hope is reduced to clutching at the non plastic straw of any form of a customs union. Others are moving towards accepting the full pain of isolation plus sacrifice to the right wing's power grab and erosion of previous due parliamentary process.
I don't know if anyone remembers the discussion in the early threads about hubris? Saying sheer hubris was a significant root cause of this debacle.
Despite not being classically educated, I predicted that based on Greek tragedy, after hubris comes nemesis then catharsis.
It's like we do have to go through the nemesis (which will be international isolation, economic pain, more austerity, an NHS in name only, greater society divisions, restricted and far more expensive mobility, limited and expensive food choice , American approved pharmaceuticals etc etc. )
Then decades beyond that there may be catharsis, a humble, grateful rejoining of an evolved EU which will cost us more, but with the trade, peace and protection benefits that brings.