Britain Will Survive

Most have heard those words to the song about "Don't cry for me, Argentina." Well, the tears coming from the crybabies who can't get themselves to accept the Brexit results make those Argentina tears look like a mere cloudburst.

In today's WSJ Simon Nixon writes: " Britain's exit from the European Union promises to be one of the most complex divorce negotiations in history: Untangling this 43-year relationship will require painful decisions that touch upon almost every aspect of national life."

As for the record setting history and complexity of the divorce, it's obvious Mr. Nixon didn't go through ours. There are plenty of longer standing relationships than 43-year ones that bridge this gap. One needs to remind Mr. Nixon that Brits are quite adapted at minding the gap.

He goes on to talk about the types of debates taking place in the UK and the continent over the process and timing since, a popular crybaby stall, nobody has a credible (There's hedge term, if you've ever heard one!) exit plan, the government should hold off invoking Article 50 for two years. Maybe by then, crybabies like Mr. Nixon hope, these rubes who voted to leave will have discovered the error of their ways.

Here's a guy who has the nerve to mention complexity and the EU in the same breath. The EU, my man, coined the original term complexity. You can wager your last beloved sterling it wouldn't take Margaret Thatcher long to make that decision. Even before the vote was announced many EU bureaucrats were quoted that if Brexit passed," leave means now." There's no two year holding period to that. Jean-Claude Juncker, the pathetic EU Commission President, seconded that motion in more ways than one.

Mr. Nixon than bewails the possibility that discussions might become acrimonious. Really. The idea that unless the UK strikes some trade deal with the EU, the island will pull an economic Houdini and disappear from the planet is pure scaremongering. There's probably more souls around the globe willing to purchase UK products now than ever for one simple reason: they had the courage to stand up and strike a blow for liberty for damn near everyone who actually cherishes it.

As for concerns about acrimony, wasn't that what stay people and their Brussels cohorts did nearly the entire pre-election time, bringing in all those scaremongering, name-calling heavyweights. The next UK PM, whoever she is, needs to find her mark on the floor, look the EU bureaucrats dead center in the eyes and: tell them: "We are the proud British people. We played your bureaucratic games for 43years. It's over." And then let the chips fall whichever direction they take. Britain will survive. It's extremely doubtful the EU will.

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