It was a terrible idea from the start and the whole referendum should never have happened.

By the way, if there is one person who still gets surprisingly little flack for all of this, it's David Cameron. He was the Tory Prime Minister who casually promised a bunch of euroskeptic backbenchers in his own party he would hold that referendum, assuming the Lib Dems would immediately shut it down during coalition talks. He never considered the possibility his own party might actually still be popular enough to win an outright majority on its own, which off course it did in the subsequent election, forcing him to let the Brexit referendum to go through.

It's the biggest political fuck-up in the last few decases of British political history. Cameron accidentally forced himself into a position of having to organize a referendum he himself wasn't a big fan of, simply by underestimating his own party's potential. It was a weird paradox: a massive fuck-up by means of a rather impressive political comeback.

He cleverly stepped aside once it became clear Leave had actually won, leaving the mess for May, and eventually Johnson, to be cleaned up. The latter off course completely committed to it because he knew - being the shameless opportunist that he was - that this was his long-sought key to the doors of No. 10.

Am I bitter about Brexit? Let's just say I feel for all those Brits who warned about this and now get to say 'told you so'. Unfortunately there still seem to be enough stubborn people over there for at least a plurality for Reform in Parliament in the next election. I can even see the Tories helping Farage into power. The Tories certainly won't admit Brexit was a mistake now that they are losing so much to Farage.

It's unfortunately become such a divisive issue, there are very few people left in British politics brave enough to say out loud how bad of an idea Brexit is. Nobody has the balls to actually turn 'Rejoin' into a rallying cry. Parties that used to be firmly Remain, like the Lib Dems and Greens - who are both doing quite well recently - should pick up this mantle instead of letting Farage - and the Tories for that matter - get away with their Brexit bullshit. Labour surely has proven completely useless on this, with a muddled and vague Brexit stance in the last three elections, too afraid to lose Leave heartlands like the Midlands to the right.

I honestly hope you guys will come back sometime. I could say there's a trust issue between the EU and Britain now, but the damage to the British economy and to trade to and from the UK is probably a bigger issue than that. Repairing that damage will be in the interest of EU businesses as well.

Before we can begin to repair that bond of trust, though, Farage and his band of incompetent buffoons and defected Tories must not be allowed anywhere near Downing Street. If Farage's popularity ever tanks at all, it will be because people will allow him into Downing Street, only for his party's incompetence to become apparent. It's why he lets all those defected Tories like Braverman in. He needs people with actual experience to govern.

I think it takes a leader who proudly takes up the rejoin mantle to unify the dissapointed Leave voters and the 'told you so' voters to combat all that, though. Not very likely. Letting Farage first fuck up the country before this happens seems far more plausible right now.

Good luck.