What “exits” are these that are “sweeping the continent”? There are about as many *exiteers in Europe as there are Flat Earthers.
As a Briton living in the Netherlands, I can tell you that you’re delusional. Being in the EU was incredibly profitable for the UK, and also managed to dull at least some of the worst excesses of capitalism run amok.
Now a country that was arguably the greatest trading nation in history has decided to deliberately alienate its largest trading partners, based on a pack of lies. And they are so incompetent at this that in two years, they still haven’t come up with any sort of plan whatsoever.
Now they’re warning their citizens to stockpile food and medicine, because they can’t even guarantee the basics will keep working!
On what planet is this anything other than a fuckup of massive proportions?
