How do you convince a leaver Brexit was a bad idea? Make them stand in a queue

theguardian.com:

I hate the phrase “the architects of Brexit”, partly because I still long for an alternate world in which Brexit vanishes as a word and concept, and partly because to say it has “architects” credits it with a degree of structural soundness it doesn’t possess. Nonetheless, there is a man, Daniel Hannan, who has been hurling himself at this project of disintegration since his student days, so let’s call him one of its architects. Writing in the Telegraph, he casually dropped in that it would have been easier for all of us if we had stayed in the single market. Tell you what would have been helpful, pal: saying this with any kind of force between 2016 and 2019, when it might have changed or meant anything. This is just the way zealots are – it is pointless to try to hold them to account or pose any questions about their sheer brass neck. They will chase you off a cliff and then ask mildly why you didn’t think to pack your parachute.

Nevertheless, it’s hard to get that sour, familiar taste of injustice out of your mouth. Hannan is allowed to say this, since from him it is original, even novel; when a fierce proponent of this idiotic scheme says that maybe it went too far, that’s news, folks. If any of the rest of us said it, it would be repetitive, predictable, irrelevant – a faux pas, even, like telling strangers how many push-ups you can do or the time you dreamed about a fox.

When a leaver gets stuck in an airport queue in Málaga for three hours, while their EU counterparts glide through and swipe all the best hire cars, they are allowed to curse the forces of bureaucracy, but if a remainer did it, we’d be remoaning again. As the titans of the airline industry – Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary, Jet2’s Steve Heapy – blame chaotic