Nigel Farage at Leave.EU party. Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.Brexit is an unprecedented act of self-sabotage: never has a nation relegated itself into obscurity with such needless, reckless abandon. The country has opted for a form of ritual suicide, but one which will destroy others in its wake, fundamentally undermining the EU, the most progressive political project in history.
A few immediate thoughts, in the early morning haze:
- Cameron has destroyed not one union, but two: how ironic that a Unionist prime minister should trigger the breakup of Great Britain. (How fond he was of saying it was ‘Great’). Cameron treated the renegotiation and subsequent communication with an astonishing degree of complacency: the ‘Last Minute Homework Prime Minister’ ended up missing his deadline.
