If it hadn’t been for Brexit, the EU market would be an “which exchange rate do you prefer?” away from being the equal of the USA. And the UK’s economy is something like California in this analogy, and they basically follow the same rules anyway despite all the noise about wanting to be different.

Yeah. I wonder if we will see another vote for them to rejoin in the future. They are surely hypocrites though as Scotland was denied independence by the UK high court.