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How Britain, Europe and the West Were Changed by Brexit - Bloomberg This Weekend
A fancy dress protest in Boston Harbor on Dec. 16, 1773; a gunshot in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914; a train arriving at the Finland Station in St. Petersburg on April 16, 1917: There are days that change the course of history — when a single incendiary event combusts with explosive forces that propel the world in a new direction. Bloomberg Opinion Columnist Adrian Wooldridge joined David Gura and Christina Ruffini on Bloomberg This Weekend to discuss how Brexit joined the list of days that have made an indelible mark on history.
At 3:10, Wooldridge points out the flaws of Brexit advocates:
...they didn't really come in with a coherent plan of how to deliver those gains. And second was the sort of world that Brexit created, which was a world of increasingly divided trading blocs, was exactly the worse sort of world for a free-trading Britain to survive in.