Go-Ahead Britain Is Having The Last Laugh On Brexit

‘Forecasters expect the UK to leave the EU trailing on growth’

- Patrick O’Flynn

BREXIT was bound to lead to a pulling up of the drawbridge and the advent of an insular era in politics – or so the ardent Remainers told us. Well, they were half right.

After the great divorce from Brussels, there are indeed multiple signs of one side turning its face against the wider world while the other forges ahead as a force for global good. Only events are unfolding the opposite way around from that forecast by Project Fear.

While the United Kingdom has just co-ordinated an international agreement to make tech giants pay a fairer share of tax, while pushing for a much more ambitious global Covid vaccination program and is in the lead on tackling climate change, it is the EU that is failing to adapt to the modern world.

Indeed, its behavior towards Britain these days resembles one of those US high school movies in which a clique of pupils responds to one of its number daring to do something different by declaring: “You can’t be friends with us.”

The latest tactic of EU member states is to prepare a “code of conduct” for dealing with Britain to make sure that nobody gets too close.