In Brexit Britain the elites will run amok

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4. brexit will mean far less than most fear, i suspect.

yes, there's a massive administrative hassle in renegotiating a huge number of trade topics.

but in the end, they need the eu as a vital trade partner, so the resulting agreements will be very similar to the eu agreements themselves.

that may be a gain for a few businesses who want to sell thing that are forbidden in the eu locally or to america, say, but i don't see that as a huge win, enough to balance the cost of shifting one bureaucracy for a remarkably similar but different bureaucracy.

and as noted, i don't see immigration changing much. at a minimum, those already in the uk will likely be grandfathered in, and employers will always have a way to bring in cheaper labor.