FWIW, I think the UK would’ve been better off if it had joined the Schengen Agreement.
But you are absolutely right that Brexit people are treating the exact things they dismissed as Project Fear as if it was a punishment. I’d personally witnessed this happening even before the referendum, in a conversation which went:
Him: “Brexit will be fine because the EU will give us a good deal”
Me: “No”
Him, shouting: “That proves we should leave!”
I almost wish I’d had a camera running at the time. I am well aware how mad it sounds.
But you are absolutely right that Brexit people are treating the exact things they dismissed as Project Fear as if it was a punishment. I’d personally witnessed this happening even before the referendum, in a conversation which went:
Him: “Brexit will be fine because the EU will give us a good deal”
Me: “No”
Him, shouting: “That proves we should leave!”
I almost wish I’d had a camera running at the time. I am well aware how mad it sounds.