Brexit contains more true catastrophic risks for the EU and the Euro than it does for Britain

Sir, I refer to Martin Wolf’s “Britain’s leap into the unknown” February 8.

Do I disagree with him? No, if I look at Brexit as Wolf does with a microscope focused solely on Britain. But, from a wider perspective, looking at so many other unknowns, his Brexit concerns takes on some Lilliput against Blefuscu war characteristics.

Why? Many would probably start by mentioning the environmental problems of the earth and overpopulation. But setting these aside there are many other challenges that needs to be considered so as to weigh correctly what could be coming with Brexit. Let me just briefly mention the following three.

First, I have the impression that Brexit carries with it more risk of true catastrophes for EU and the Euro than what it has for Britain. This is not a case Britain leaving a happy family behind. It is more like running away from a very messy dam full of repressed feelings of discontent, ready to burst at the urgings of any able populist, and to which its comfortable and full of themselves technocracy is unable to respond to adequately.

Second the banking system. Its regulators, with their risk weighted capital requirements, manipulated and distorted the system in such a way that the real economy is not being fed the nourishment it needs; and the banks themselves are bound to collapse, as would collapse any casino that had its roulette table equally manipulated.

Third, the growing structural unemployment caused by robots and automation. The only reasonable response to that seems to be some sort of Universal Basic Income floor, and that is something that must be much easier to develop within a nation. Just thinking of some EU Commissioners having to agree to a uniform Universal Basic Income policy applicable to Germany and Greece is too challenging.

Of course Brexit represents difficulties… but like all difficulties it also encompasses some opportunity. My dear English friends think of it like this. You are now sailing back to your homeland and soon, for good or for bad, you will at least be able to see the white cliffs of Dover again. 

@PerKurowski

PS. And of course you want to be as far away as possible when the Eurozone's debt bomb explodes