Britain: “Screw the EU. We’re sick of following your regulations and welcoming your people into our country just to steal our jobs from hardworking British workers and scrounge off of our NHS and welfare state. But we still want to trade freely and come live in your countries whenever we feel like it, because we’re massive xenophobic hypocrites who think the entire world still revolves around us.”
Britain: “Screw the EU. We’re sick of following your regulations and welcoming your people into our country just to steal our jobs from hardworking British workers and scrounge off of our NHS and welfare state. But we still want to trade freely and come live in your countries whenever we feel like it, because we’re massive xenophobic hypocrites who think the entire world still revolves around us.”
France: “Fruckoff.”
“We don’t wanna be in the EU anymore!”
“Okay, then you’ll be treated like people who aren’t in the EU anymore.”
“No, wait…”