Handling the Horrible
Earlier today, I was walking through Parliament Square in London and - inadvertently - observing the protestors. The biggest, loudest group was an anti-Brexit protest, pointing out how terrible an idea Brexit was: how it would damage the economy and make it harder to maintain the funding of valued programs. This triggered a bit of a Buddhist response from me: I agree with them on most of the facts, but I still feel this is not a healthy response. Wherefore Brexit Brexit is a strong contender for greatest own goal in the history of the United Kingdom - up there with Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler. In one fell swoop, it: royally buggered up trade with the continent for a protracted period; removed our ability to comment on European regulations, without removing our exposure to the regulations themselves[1]; gave other financial centres in Europe - which could semi-legitimately claim that at least they weren't under the thumb of morons - a chance to steal Londo...