Huh.
Just as there was some emerging hope of a second referendum reversing all this Brexit stupidity, the EU goes and shits the bed. This is a giant middle finger to precisely the same demographic that is most pro-EU. I don’t see what hope there is now. Even if it’s somehow stopped down the line, I fear it will be too late to rescue public opinion here.
Honestly, they don’t make it easy. For better or worse, the EU is the shape of international trade on the continent of Europe and I’d vote every time to be part of that rather than cut off from it. But as an institution it is mind-bendingly infuriating! It’s reached the point that if the EU were a sketch I’d screw it up, throw it away and start over with a blank sheet of paper; not to do anything radically different - just draw the same scene again without making such a damn mess of it this time…