Hopefully, yes to Brexit, and yes to a seamless trading relationship with the EU. Britain can be the island Switzerland of Europe. Independent but connected.
The dream of Europe as a continental empire takes the form of Charlemagne, of Napoleon, of Hitler, and now of the EU. The problem isn't the countries - it's the sweeping ambitions of the Frankish peoples (the French and the Germans). They have wanted to control the continent since the middle ages. They still want to.
The EU is the latest vehicle for the same bloody theme. It always ends in misery.
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