Brexit is a triumph of diplomacy and planning – just not for Britain GlobeDebate
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Say what you will about Brexit, but it has unquestionably been a triumph of effective, measured diplomacy and exhaustive, intelligent planning.Brussels has a well-deserved reputation for bureaucratic inaction, organizational myopia and opaque, inhuman leadership. The things that turned Britons and other Europeans off about the EU, as an organization, are real.
Britain, on the other hand, had planned nothing. Former prime minister David Cameron, believing a referendum loss impossible, refused to authorize plans for a Leave outcome. His successor, Theresa May, tried to improvise and work her political contacts, and was blocked at every step.
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