Brexit Hysteria

What was all the fuss? In his new book, “This Sovereign Isle,” British historian Robert Tombs chronicles the epic battle over Brexit and why the Remainer’s doomsday predictions flopped like a soggy biscuit.

It is now nearly a month since the ‘transition period’, connecting the United Kingdom with the European Union, ended on 1 January.  Legal membership had ended a year earlier, in January 2020.  There are still some problems at the borders, but nothing as serious as was predicted by many opponents of ‘Brexit’, who warned that there would be hundreds of lorries queuing, empty supermarket shelves, and even a lack of vital medicines.  Ironically, the only effect on medical supplies is that the UK has been much faster than the EU at vaccinating its people against Covid.  

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