Three years after the Brexit referendum, a referendum where voters had to vote for something the Governement did not even know what it meant, the UK politicians still have no clear scenarios to present to their voters.

The EU is still the big market ( 450 million consumers) next door. Yes, Brussels has become a tremendous bureaucracy the last 20 years, under the leadership of Europhiles like Junker with their ambition of their ever closer Superstate.

But the wind has been shifting and these ambitions have already been reduced.

What can be the reason to leave, especially when the UK politicians have no alternative to offer ? Direct effect will be that:

- the UK will be exluded from EU policy making

- as Woods describes, years of contracts will have to renogiated

- the mutual benefits that result from trade will be lost, increasing prices in the UK (and EU)

- foreign investors which want to benefit from the big EU markt, will make their investments, in factories and distribution, centers on the Continent

- then there is the loss of prestige in the World.

Perhaps it is telling that people vote for Boris Johnson because he has such a sense of humor.

Humor is nice in politics. But is he not just hiding that he has no solutions for this major step in the history of the UK ?