Comment by servo_sausage

Brexit is such an odd case, that it seems not worth comparing.

It's so tied into British classicism, and the generally pathetic nature of the middle class English, that trying to extend the results outside of the UK produces absurd ideas.

Essentially the British people took a (not particularly economically motivated) deal to reduce migration, at the cost of economic connection to the EU.

This upset the UK political class greatly, so much of the following policy was about punishing the population, rather than long term economics.