Only time will show effects of Brexit

ACCORDING to Albert Einstein, “the dividing line between past, present, and future is an illusion”. American poet XJ Kennedy put it more succinctly when he said: “The purpose of time is to prevent everything happening at once.”

If so, time must be on strike, considering the speed of seismic global events this year, among them the election of Donald Trump and the decision by the British electorate to leave the European Union.

Yesterday marked six months since the UK voted to leave the EU and a new report in the UK on Brexit has called this the most tumultuous time in British politics since the Second World War.