The Coming Brexit Farce
While Brexiteers believe the threat of “no deal” increases <em>British</em> leverage, the EU calculates that it increases <em>its</em> leverage and is therefore happy to play along. The result: an inevitable crisis.
If you thought a Boris Johnson victory would put an end to Britain’s Brexit crisis, spoiler: It won’t.
The central thrust of Johnson’s election campaign is that, unlike the Labour Party, which wants to hold a second referendum on whether or not the U.K. should leave the EU, he will “get Brexit done” so Britain can move on to its core domestic priorities. Labour’s policy, he charges, will simply prolong the crisis.
For a country yearning for the three-year saga to just be over, it is a potentially appealing pitch. It is also almost entirely misleading.
While Johnson is right to say the
