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Brexit Brinksmanship: The Cliff-edge On Which Everyone is Banking
Analysis > Brexit Brinksmanship: The Cliff-edge On Which Everyone is Banking
In the torrid atmosphere of the UK leaving the EU, there is a calamitous game of brinksmanship going on, where the clock is running down towards the 29th March crash date where, without a negotiated deal with the EU, the UK will leave the union on World Trade Organization terms. Treaties, laws and other agreements will suddenly no longer be valid. Imports and exports that were freely traded will suddenly have to pass through under-manned customs. And, if you believe it, the UK will be thrust back into the dark ages with food and medicine shortages, riots and martial law. The most bizarre thing about all this is that most political groups in the UK seem to be happy to ride up to the cliff edge, confident that their requirements will magically be met.
It is a strange paradox, where so many groups are all counting on the same event to lead to so many different outcomes. It is perhaps a mark of the ideology involved, where belief is outweighing reality and everyone thinks that, if they just keep trying, they will get what they want in the end. The psychological trap that they all are falling into is overconfidence. I want something. I believe I will get it. So I believe in my ability to get it. And I believe that external events will happen to help this. In the birth of Brexit it happened to PM David Cameron too. He was pro-Europe and believed Brexit would be easily defeated in a referendum. On 23rd June, 2016, he was probably the most surprised person in the country (so much so that he quit to enjoy an easier life). The saddest part of all this is that no matter what the outcome is, the reputation of the UK in the world will be permanently tarnished. The UK was basking in a post-colonial glow, still enjoying influence beyond its tiny size. People thought the British as civilized, the epitome of polite society, a model to which great countries should aspire. And yet it is those who pretend to high society who are embroiled in these dangerous, damaging Brexit plots who are creating victims of the British people and battering the British brand. No wonder the world watches with despair. See alsoBrexit, Broken Majorities and Consequent Chaos, The Emotionally of Brexit and the Desperation to Appear Rational
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