Pick your friends with care
The continuing Brexit fantasy that the EU is about to collapse and dozens of happy, free nations join the UK in some sort of new EFTA never sleeps. It might well be that some countries do eventually leave the EU or even get kicked out but Brexit has made it less not more likely.
Also the countries that have real problems with the EU are Poland and Hungary. Their problems with the EU come down to the fact that they are suppressing a free media, fixing the courts, corrupt, not implementing EU law, homophobic and increasingly racist and rapidly becoming less democratic.
If this ever comes to a head, and the EU is being very reluctant to force the pace here, the UK may have a chance to create a minor rival EU block.
It would consist of the UK and two pariah states.
Jonty’s Jottings
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.