In November 2008, with the global financial crisis already underway, Queen Elizabeth II visited the London School of Economics (LSE), one of the great temples of knowledge on the continent. There, breaking his usual neutrality, he asked Luis Garicano , today MEP of Citizens and then department director, an issue that millions of people asked each day: "If things were so bad, why did nobody do anything? Yes they are so smart, why didn't they see it coming? " .

If the queen, to whom private rupturist drives are attributed, today asked an equivalent question about Brexit, the tightest answer that could be given is similar to the one Garicano broke down then: what broke the system was the excess of trust There are, of course, numerous factors that explain what happened in the United Kingdom before and since 2016, when David Cameron called and lost a referendum for which he had not fought too much until today. Internal and external, public relations, philosophy and content. There are elements that are repeated all over the world, from the Philippines of Duterte to the United States of Trump. What the LSE itself later elaborated in a letter to the royal palace, stating that "it was mainly a failure of the collective imagination of many brilliant people to understand the risks to the system as a whole" seems quite true here as well.

Every day I think about the referendum and about the fact of having lost. I am desperately worried about what may happen now

David Cameron, former 'premier', 9/13/2019

In the last 24 months, the reputation of the United Kingdom in Europe has received a stick perhaps without equivalent since the Suez disaster in 1956 . Its political, parliamentary, media and civil society management has been a nonsense that has led two prime ministers, dozens and dozens of members of the Government, and has polarized the Parliament and the citizens as a whole. The British, for decades as respected as unbearable in institutions, have been infinitely below what was expected of them . And the reaction, which for a time oscillated between stupefaction and rage, mixed with many moments of weariness, has become a mixture of nervousness, helplessness and condescension.

The relationship between both parties could be understood by reading any of the wonderful works of PG Wodehouse . The United Kingdom is Bertie Wooster : rich, unconscious, hyper-confident in her skills and connections, attached to traditions, surnames and clubs. Indifferent to logic and reality, but true to its old principles. Proud of his past and unconcerned about his future. He has always done well and has no reason to think that the future will be different despite what the news outside of his pleasant and anachronistic bubble point.

We can still stop Brexit and end the chaos of these years

Jo Swinson, Liberal Democrat, 9/17/2019

The EU would act as Jeeves , his professional, helpful and faithful valet (servant). The brain, the one who knows the rules, how the world works and the infinite limitations of its boss. Jeeves, an example of control and phlegm, always manages to improvise a plan that appeals to the feelings, to the heart, to the most intimate desires, to keep his employer afloat. And fix all the mess that the imprudence of that caste of rich and noble out of Eton and Oxbridge causes day after day.

Brexit is going to be an economic disaster of unforeseeable consequences . For the United Kingdom, it could mean more than 5% of its GDP and up to potentially 10% of per capita income, in the worst case scenario. It has always been said that if the break was made without agreement the short-term effects could be devastating. Infinite queues at airports and border posts, kilometers and kilometers of land retentions for trucks. End of recognition of the rights of permanence or residence for millions of people. Legal insecurity ... This is not a divorce for the bad ones, nor an amputation: a separation is attempted at the cellular level of something that has been forged for half a century . We don't know how much it will hurt, and we don't even know if it can be done.

The EU will not be responsible for any of the consequences of Brexit

Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the EC, 9/22/2019

But beyond the economic and social effects in the coming months and years, the rights of hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people, the customs nightmare, validations and freedom of movement, for Europe the coup reaches other dimensions as well. The United Kingdom has been a constant pain, a problem. They have never been completely inside, complaining about thousands of issues, blocking, staying out of key issues in Interior or immigration. But it brought a worldview that nobody, not even France, has in Europe . A trend promoted and in favor of the regulatory limitation that compensated for the drifts of many other members. A presence and a primacy of Security and Defense issues that will be much missed. A fantastic link for the transatlantic link. Remarkable efficiency in management issues in institutions. A perspective and a balance of powers against the Franco-German axis that has served to form alternative alliances at key moments.

We are preparing to leave the EU on October 31. Life or death

Boris Johnson, 'premier', 7/24/2019

The moment is dreary, the perspectives are dire, but if there is something that is clear on both sides of the channel, it is that this ionsque nightmare must end at once . Anyway, but finish. It may be resignation, perhaps tiredness or desire for revenge, also some recklessness based on the false dream of a stronger and more convincing Union at 27, but in Brussels there is an increasingly widespread feeling that Wodehouse in The inimitable Jeeves put words ago almost an exact century: "I have discovered as a general rule of life that the things you think will be the most chilling are almost always not so bad after all."

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