[eponeponepon]

Condensed somewhat: "Dear British voters: Give up. Your objectionable government renders you people unwelcome in our club, and I want you out."

Condensed further: "Dear British voters: Screw yourselves. Literally."

Either way, this piece propounds a deeply and unnecessarily divisive opinion. We are not our government, and it saddens me greatly to be reminded that the exclusionist prejudices half the Commons are currently busy whipping up into a frothing idiocy here are just as present on the continent.

[toyg]

The last few paragraphs make it clear it's mostly a satyrical take: the author wouldn't vote for brexit if he were British, because there is nothing to gain for the average guy, and even Farage would end up without the only parliament he managed to get elected to.

But below the satyrical level, there is a point. The British government has long been unpopular in European circles. British politicians insist in interpreting the EU as a trade zone rather than a long-term federalist project, and this is at odd with pretty much everyone else. Also, the EU got too big too fast, and if it is to ever make real progress again, it will have to slim down and lose troublesome countries (UK but also some of the Eastern bloc and maybe Greece). In that sense, Brexit might be a belated step forward for the Union, and it would likely hit only the British themselves (well, maybe some French companies too).

[gaius]

A trade zone is what the people voted to join, tho'. We didn't sign up for a federal superstate and if that is what the EU was planning all along, they did a bait and switch.