Thread by @DmitryOpines

There's something reeking of privilege in the posh Brexiteer refrain, "Surely like-minded people on both sides of the channel can just work it out?"

It is the baffled cry of those whose problems have heretofore always dissipated following a quiet chat between the "right people."

It is the mildly affronted confusion of those who never had to sweat the details, follow the rules or put in the work.

Those who could call daddy's old friends in senior management and have the uppity clerk put in her place for trying to enforce the no-smoking policy.

It is the morning after Bullingdon Club hotel room vandalism, when the scions of the well-to-do saunter off for a Bloody Mary at the Yacht Club, safe in the knowledge that someone else will clean up last night's chaos.

Someone paid to fix the aftermath of 'boys being boys.'

Leaving a trade bloc to chart your own course has consequences, and whether you think the price is worth paying or not, it is there nonetheless.

Leaving a trade bloc is complex, and whether you care about the complexities or not, they are there nonetheless.

The details. The competing interests. The rules and systems behind them.

They are all there, and sometimes they prevent even those outcomes generally desirable to both sides because fidelity to the rules and details is, in the long term, a worthy outcome in and of itself.

Perhaps it is unsurprising then that this eludes a certain sub-sect of the the English elite.

After all, for them the rules were always an amusing straitjacket upon those without the connections and influence to 'sort something out.'

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