neb: Interesting commentary on Brexit from the Guardian:

 

 

There is one Brexit deal. There has only ever been one. It has been there from the start, although hard to see through the fog. Its outline has been discernible behind plumes of rhetoric and misinformation billowing out from the Westminster political machine. It was there on the horizon the morning after the referendum. It has not moved during the thousands of hours of debate that followed. The deal was already contained in article 50. It was in every bill in every late-night Commons vote. It was in Theresa May’s backstop and Boris Johnson’s alternative. It is the hard kernel of a soft Brexit and the soft underbelly of a hard one. It is the capital of Norwegian, Canadian and Australian-style Brexits.

 

It is this: the UK will give up wealth in exchange for sovereignty. In what proportions and over what timescale is the only real subject of negotiation. Whether that exchange should be made at all is the essential difference between leavers and remainers. The scenario we now call “no deal” is a way of describing the highest price for the largest portion of sovereignty.

 

 

And reality is "sovereignty" is this context is the ability to block "foreigners" from coming into the country. At the end of the day it was born out some racist person's mind and spread like Trumpism's America First - almost like a "Make Britain Great Again".

Now you read of older, retired people who supported invoking article 50 and are surprised they can't freely go enjoy their holiday retirement home in Spain as freely as before.