Neurope
Brexit - in or out Brexit divides the country by the binary choice of 2016's referendum: stay in the EU or leave. Before the referendum there were good bits about the EU (easy, tariff-free trade, cooperation on security) as well as not-so-good bits (big annual payments, banana bendiness rules) and we all had our own thoughts about what was good and what was not, but differences in opinions didn't divide families or ruin friendships. Now polarisation creates rifts in society and has more or less stopped politics working as the ERG on one side and militant remainers on the other take turns to sabotage every possible solution. There's a tendency for Remainers to equate the EU with Europe and paint Brexiteers as nationalists and isolationists, but it is possible to love Europe, its peoples, cultures, architecture, languages while being less enthusiastic about the institutions of the EU. To want to be able to trade and cooperate with other countries without being restricted b...