Last month marked ten years since 17,410,742 people decided the United Kingdom’s future should lie outside its greatest trading partner, the European Union.
Since then, we’ve had a decade of chaos which has resulted in an almost-universal consensus that Brexit has been a disaster.
A majority of people now think this and many want another referendum on the matter.
As the years have gone on since 2016, it’s fair to say a number of nations have looked on in bafflement at the UK’s decision to shoot itself in the foot – or, as Finland’s president put it earlier this year, amputating your leg for no reason.
READ NEXT: ‘Brexit was a con, and those who sold it are guilty of a heinous crime’ – Michael Heseltine
The latest example of this has come in the US, where CNN managed to sum up what has pretty much ended up being a lost decade for Britain.
In a devastating four-minute segment in the wake of Keir Starmer’s resignation, CNN said the prime minister has been “knocked down and out by the seemingly unmanageable politics Brexit spawned.”
The channel’s presenter said Brexit “fired the starting gun on a wave of populism that swept the Western world.”
But the segment pointed to the ‘buyer’s remorse’ that has developed since Brexit, with many polls showing Brits now want to return to the EU.
CNN reporter Anna Coober went to the Leave-voting town of Hastings to see what Brexit sentiment was like ten years on.
This included one fisherman who said he voted to see “Great Britain great again.” When asked to describe Brexit in one word, he said: “Failure,” and pointed to the rise in paperwork he now has to do and the increased difficulties in exporting fish.
The most telling line came from one Leave voter who simply said: “I think I would have voted differently if I’d known what it is today.”
If only people had listened to those damn experts, hey?