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1. As you know, I’m far from being an EU-phile, but I’m quite surprised at your reporting (here and I think elsewhere in your recent posts) that the UK’s departure seems to be taken for granted in Brussels. I think it’s fairly unlikely in the foreseeable future, and I don’t see anyone here calling for it who hasn’t been calling for it for years – and they have always done so from the fringes of British politics.

   But also, if I were in Brussels I wouldn’t be contemplating the departure of the UK from the EU with the resigned equanimity that you seem to be conjuring: I’d be fighting damned hard to prevent it. When you consider how much effort and bending of rules has been expended in keeping Greece in the club, it seems slightly ludicrous that the departure of an economy eight times its size (to say nothing of any other measure of the UK’s relative significance) should evoke, by comparison, no more than a wistful sigh.

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