The Crown......
No not the star studded series but the crown on the pint glass. The one we all missed so much it was necessary to leave the EU to get it back.
Except that is wasn’t, the UK could put anything on its pint glasses that it wanted; at any time.
The UK could have put “Up your’s Delors” on any and every glass, just so long as it didn’t block the CE mark that showed the glass measurement agreed with EU standards.
Doubly pathetic because the UK. had a special and unique opt out to allow the pint to last for ever, rather than convert it to metric measurement.
But all this is irrelevant really, the key here is that such petty jingoistic symbolism is all that Brexiteers have. Those freedoms they witter on about don’t exist because the UK was always free.
They were merely just ways of framing the debate and it worked; Little Englander invented issues trumped national interest.
There are dozens of others, all irrelevant except that to a few they justify everything.
The jewel in the crown turns out to be the crown.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.