Brexit isn’t done. Brexit can never be done. No hoisting of the flag, no singing of the national anthem, no bonging of Big Ben can put an end to the process. Because Brexit — though the word itself suggests otherwise — is a process, not an event. It is a long economic realigning, not an abrupt economic realignment.
The government believes that the press and the public will ignore the negotiations. The endless acronyms will relegate Brexit to the business pages. The slow drip of jobs being lost will not be linked to the UK’s self-imposed exclusion from the world’s largest single market.
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