Jim Power: Lessons for Ireland in Britain's Brexit debacle

The UK is the only G7 economy the IMF projects will contract next year — it has said that even the Russian economy will grow by 0.3%.

Pro-Brexit supporters gather in George Square, Glasgow, on January 31, 2020. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Suffice to say the third anniversary of Brexit was a low-key affair, and was not celebrated in an obvious way in Britain. 

The reality is that the fateful decision to walk away from free access to an EU market with a population of close to 450m has not worked out. The many freedoms and benefits promised by its ideologically-blinded proponents have not materialised, not least the financial bounty for the National Health Service, which is not having a good winter, to put it mildly.