[Opinion] “Brexit is not the cause of Britain’s woes,” by James Piereson

“Brexit is not the cause of Britain’s woes,” by James Piereson

The electoral collapse of the Labour and Conservative Parties in the United Kingdom has caused journalists and opinion columnists once again to blame all of the country’s problems on the 2016 decision by British voters to leave the European Union. This is nothing new: for years writers at leading publications such as The Wall Street Journal and The Economist have forecast that the Brexit vote would cause Britain to fall behind Germany, France, a…