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There is an argument to be made for letting a no deal Brexit happen. Full steam ahead, and hit the iceberg. People will *never* believe the icy waters of the North Atlantic are real until the waves wash over their heads. But that's a purely intellectual exercise in schadenfreude.
Unfortunately, an "I told you so" frisson won't keep factories open. It won't put food in the shops. It won't allow young people to study or apprentice abroad. It won't keep stocks of medicines high. It won't prevent mass queues at ports. It won't keep rubbish from piling up.
And so we fight. Fight. Fight. Because the alternative is to suffer right alongside those we've just proven to be wrong. And that's too terrible a fate to tolerate. Far better to be despised for obstinacy than to be hungry, newly unemployed, or endangered by a lack of medicine.
