From Now on, the Answer Will Be: 'That's What They Said About Brexit'

Coyne, NP
All this, for a sovereign country that was half-out of the EU from the start with its own currency, for example and a union whose constitution made clear provision for how a member state could withdraw. How it could have been imagined that a province in a federation, with the much-tighter integration that implies, and in the absence of any explicit constitutional process for secession whatever, could have fared any better, is beyond comprehension.