United Kingdom

there's no deal that will be as good as being an EU member, the EU isn't going away (despite Farage & Co.'s fevered fantasies), and we have a choice of continuing to stand in the tent and pissing in, or ineffectually loafing outside it trying to muster the head of urine to piss in while looking for favourable trade deals from those we're pissing on.

Behind all the bluster is the convenient-at-the-time amorphousness about what "Leave" actually meant and the failure since the referendum and to this day to formulate a coherent set of bargaining positions on anything. As soon as May tried to very belatedly nail it down rather than dreaming of "Brexit means Brexit" and "A Red, White and Blue Brexit", many in her Cabinet (including our current prime minister) bailed out and the fractures in the Tories got even wider.

Whatever happens, we'll be rule-takers, pure and simple, with no say in what the EU decides. That's what "Leave" means, after all.