The UK will eventually leave the EU without a meaningful deal (for any jurisdiction) and "pain" will be felt by many (though stresses and strains are more likely), before a new paradigm evolves, probably as a result of multinational traders dictating terms to a political oligarchy that will oversee a "Euro" oligopoly.
There will be some anger and pettiness and (French) pedantic behaviours (as seems usual), but life will go on, though the departure of the UK may be a catalyst of further change, with EU countries reviewing what they want from their membership (fee); especially Eire who may decide to follow the UK when told to construct a border regime because the UK never will (it did!), thereby compromising their 90% export trade with the UK. Belgium may also wish to review their percentage of UK bound exports.
Anyway, enough of me rattling on.
Good luck Europe and for the good of Germany, do not implode!
UPDATE (26th April 2021) - Well! The UK seems to be doing OK without the protective arms of the EU trying to crush us with their political polemic and though there are still outstanding contractual contributions to our old "club" (until 2060?) our world has not fallen in; food still arrives, medicines are not scarce (nor Covid-19 vaccinations!) and the anti-brexit naysayers have finally shut-up. There are niggles of course, with more to come probably, but I think the EU apparatchiks (for the EU is seemingly being run as a communistic centralised control exercise) are getting our message at last: We bear you no ill-will but we have to go our own way now.
UPDATE (11th Jun 2021) - Just a thought because President Biden is warning Boris Johnson about not upsetting Northern Irish people anymore with regard to the infamous "Brexit Border Problem", but a newly elected NI party leader has told him (Biden) to keep his nose out of their issues and to clear off!
How did the UK let themselves be railroaded into this poorly conceived "agreement"? (The same one Boris ousted the then UK Prime Minister Teresa May over.)
Prior to Brexit, why didn't we ask the EU how it protects its far-flung borders from illegal or "tariff" imports AND THEN ASK THEM HOW THEY PROPOSED TO PROTECT THEIR NEWLY ACQUIRED FAR-FLUNG BORDER WITH NORTHER IRELAND?
My point is, why are we the UK having to do the work the EU should be doing. THEY (the EU) should be telling their member (Eire) to monitor their (the EUs) border. Not us in the UK; it should never be a problem for mainland UK to trade with ANY of its member states and the EU should be doing their job from their side of the "Irish Border" .
BREXIT FLAG
I saw our flag
flapping and stuttering against its pole.
I saw our flag straining,
writhing and contorting
in a wind of change.
I saw the pole unbending.
Dogmatic in its stance,
leashing and lashing the flag
that gently stroked with fraying edges
its master's stand.
I saw our flag,
with a forced embrace,
envelop the greasy pole
and then, as if to retain dignity,
I saw it fall.
That flag caressed my soul,
but I saw a truth profound
as I picked it from the ground;
for there was a hole through which all could pass,
to corrode us from inside.
Our flag had lost its heart,
but we have found our heart.
At the foot of our Brexit pole.
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