And isn’t it an irrational action? Sure, there is:
Others like France becoming encouraged to leave
Currency instability but the UK is not even on the Euro
This change won’t happen immediately and the treaties will take years to materialize
The world goes on, people do not stop consuming with this vote
Uncertainty is the problem isn’t it?
With each proclomation of any change to the staus quo resulting in an armageddon like collapse I consider the source. When crony capitalism ended or was at least dampened for a bit in places like Indonesia the end of the world as we know it was forecast there by the people who would be ousted.
I’m ready for a new sherrif in town. The cost will be temporary. This last “new world order” (NWO) of the last 30 years has been a big turd in the punch bowl. The NWO is just another brand of socialism and it stinketh. I remeber when GHW Bush declared the NWO and began destruction of what Reagan started. We have had nothing but collectivists and globalsits around since then. They are all about power, privilidge and money for them and another reality for the rest of us.
No, I am not polly anna to think that we are entering some golden age but the path we are on has been and surely is a spiral to the bottom of the toilet.
I don’t see why Brexit has to affect trade relations, even if France or (more likely) the Netherlands votes to exit.
The EU was fine when it was mostly a free-trade association. It could become one again, without the Euro (in mainland Europe) bankrupting Greece, and modification of the free-migration policies more recently put in place.
The “union” would probably work better if it was an “association.” It doesn’t have to be all or nothing, but Brussels bureaucrats have a lot invested in “all.”