Britain Didn’t Need to Collapse

And perhaps that’s Brexit’s greatest tragedy.

Belgrade, 11 November 2016 — Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson at the Kalemegdan Fortress. Photo: Milovan Milenković, Kamerades / Image by British Embassy Belgrade / Flickr / License

None of it needed to happen. The empty supermarket shelves, the fuel shortages, the cataclysmic blow to British exports, the extremist nationalism, the labor shortages, the dying industries, the lost jobs — none of it. No one held a gun to Britain’s head and ordered it to trade in its more prosperous reality for the future of a…