The repercussions of both manmade and natural disasters can last for years, decades, even centuries – and, it must be said, the same goes for Britain’s departure from the European Union.
To adapt the popular quip, Brexit is the gift that keeps on taking. The economic and diplomatic harms inflicted on the country – self-inflicted, in truth – were not one-offs. In many respects, they were a sort of slow and ceaseless process of self-harm, exacerbating themselves year on year as the country loses trade and jobs, and sees its international influence outside the bloc gradually, inexorably diminish.
