One of the common cries from unreconciled Remainers in Britain is: “Can you give me just one benefit of Brexit?” Well, this week a book is out which gives us 75 of them: 75 Brexit Benefits, by the pseudonymous author Gully Foyle (whom I know in real life and can reassure readers is eminently qualified to write on this subject), sets out 75 changes that have already happened in Britain and which would have been impossible within the EU policy framework. For all the criticisms from people like me that things should have gone faster while we had a chance, it’s nevertheless worth being reminded that quite a lot has already moved.
Britain’s emerging tailored policy framework stands in contrast to the EU’s. I was reading this week an assessment by one of Brussels Signal’s big competitors of the main policy issues facing the EU this autumn. And what a depressing read it was.
After all, Europe is the closest to war it has been for a generation. With only a couple of exceptions, its national economies are slowing fast, and its motor, Germany, has gone into reverse. Social conflict is rife thanks to many years of super-high migration.
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