By far the strongest argument in favour of Brexit was the “burning building” thesis. This held that the European Union was inherently unstable and liable to imminent collapse, so Britain’s interests lay in getting out while it could before it became engulfed in the rubble. Of course, this analysis was directly contradicted by the Brexiteers’ second-best argument which was that the EU was on the point of becoming a superstate so Britain had to leave before it lost its independence. This inconsistency did not do the Brexit cause any harm. After all, in 2016 in the immediate wake of the eurozone debt crisis and the migration crisis, both of which at times had put the EU under immense strain, it wasn’t hard to persuade people