And yet- I think the UK should leave.
From living with the British it seems to me that they really, really want to go. They want it for absurd, idiotic reasons. They 're motivated by nationalism, xenophobia, a ridiculous belief that if they kick all the foreigners off their island everything broken with the UK will magically fix itself... In short, the worse, most stupid sentiments that could ever inform such a serious decision.
And yet- they seem to want it. What's more, while they're in they're constantly disruptive and reactionary, digging in their heels and protesting every effort to bring the rest of the continent closer _as the rest of the continent wants it_. They are the grumpy man of Europe and proud of it.
So let them have their little moment. Let them wave two fingers in our collective faces. And let them get out just like they want it.
That's what they want. Let them have it.