What I am hoping for is that folks in the UK take a hard look in the mirror and recognize that they are responsible for what the UK has done.
Winner-take-all is such a mean system. Obviously, the winners do end up taking it all, but the mean part is that it establishes a mentality of winning-winning-winning, a competition for the sake of competition. It takes others down with it on every chance and turn.
When Margaret Thatcher took Europe into that abyss of playing the rat-race game to the max, the European Economic Community had to follow. The UK was so much tied to the hip to avoid this sharp turn, and like water all money would have been rushing toward the lowered standards of the UK had the nations in the EEC not made similar steps.
Truss tried to do the same, but she forgot that Brexit had taken away the power that Thatcher could yield. The island nation all by itself would not have followers because the block across the little pond and the block across the large pond were not connected to it any longer. No one paid attention. No followers, and so the UK would implode had it given all to the rich and taken all from the poor.
My hope is that the EU will demand political freedom in the UK first, if the the UK ever wants to come back to the EU. There should not be any space for any nation in the EU that suppresses voters as much as the UK does.
Even when the UK goes it alone, it would be smart to base its nation on more political freedom than it has today.
No, that doesn't mean twenty parties are necessary. Yet a basic color copier has red, blue, yellow and black ink, and anything less is not full color. It can get established the French way, it can get established the German way, or it can get established in a British way as long as there are going to be a handful of parties that have tasted real power in -say- twenty years of governing. Four to six parties is all it takes to be a true democracy.
What the UK has now is pathetic. Two parties in control only, with miraculously a third party once every hundred years. It is pathetic and means that the true powers behind the screen are always outside the voters' realm, no skin in the game. With five parties switching power over the years, these five parties are going to be far more honest (yes, they will remain politicians, but they will bend toward the truth more).
Only when the UK becomes a democracy in the true sense of the word, and gives up on its bipolar duopoly, only then will the British economy be guided by what makes Brits strong and proud.
Brexit is showing us a EU that is moving more toward its social-democratic self, abandoning the rat race. It got liberated from the UK's winner-take-all system.
The world is a new place, and the UK has to make a choice if it wants to remain the competitor that competes for the sake of competition or if it wants to become a real democracy that will make the UK a happier nation.
