How easy will Brexit be?

[brooklynite]

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[LeftishBrit]

1. Not at all easy

[Blue_Tires]

2. Brexit was always some kind of stupid joke

It was never supposed to win, and the people who had been whoring for Brexit for years were more shocked than anyone that they actually won... And THEN they get scared shitless because the bill has come due on all those "we can have our cake and eat it too!" promises that were never, ever going to happen because they never planned on Brexit winning... and because they never thought Brexit would win, they completely undersold the immense undertaking of extricating themselves from 40 years of EU law and policy...

So long story short, they don't know how to do it because they don't know what they're doing since they were convinced they could have all the fucking with the ex- after the divorce without dealing with the chores, bills, job, and parenting responsibilities...

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Seems a lot like a certain Presidential Election that took place the same year

[Blue_Tires]

4. Sadly the biggest common theme between them

is once you put aside all the myths and narrative and other bullshit, is that most people voted for Trump/Brexit because they thought both entities were going to kick all the immigrants out....

[HipChick]

5. A lot of the immigrants in the UK are white Eastern Europeans..

and the Polish...

[Orangepeel]

9. The biggest common theme was Russian interference.

[Pope George Ringo II]

6. I made my peace with Brexit a couple of years ago.

Now I just root for the damned thing to implode for the sheer joy of watching it burn to the ground. Pain is the only way to reverse it, and destroying it for fun just seems like karma.

[Iliyah]

7. Will it die?

Will the UK have to suffer greatly first, I hope not.

[gratuitous]

8. The oddest thing

Atrios has been on Brexit since the campaign, and one of the recurring motifs is this idea by some of the Brexiteers that they can pick and choose what parts of the EU they get to jettison (all the bad things) while keeping the things they like. Then they get mad because the remaining countries in the EU don't feel any obligation to smooth out Britain's path to exit. "You heartless skank! I'm leaving forever. Now, help me move the waterbed." "Ha, ha, ha! No."

[Blue_Tires]

11. Like I said, they want a divorce from the marriage while keeping the sex every night...

[Amishman]

10. It'll be Brexit in name only

May and other Brit politicians are realizing it's a huge mistake and the EU is spooked by the eurosceptic rise in Italy, Austria, Poland, and others.