'The Economist' has chosen the appropriate word to define a hypothetical British exit from the EU: gamble!
Before it stands reckless...
The two together sum up brilliantly what might become of the UK as a stand-alone major European country proudly posturing on the fringes.
It is true the British have not quite reconciled themselves with the demise of Empire. Or perhaps more accurately they haven't yet carved out a new role for them in Europe and the world.
Such adjustments do indeed take decades but time is now running out for Britain's Establishment to clearly decide on the EU and carry along the better part of the nation.
Given the UK's track-record in Europe since 1973, its many hesitations mainly, the outright rejections euphemistically called opt-outs are relevant enough to warrant a final IN or OUT commitment.
And what it takes to bear one or the other.
Unless the EU is on its death throes - which I would want to believe it is not despite current troubles/divisions undermining it - I fail to see how a lone UK might, on balance, fare better.
The issue is far wider than mere conjecture or partial evaluation.
It is an across-the-board assessment of financial, economic, cultural, societal, military, geographical, logistical and political implications.
In a globalized world where countries have over the years joined to scale up trading and political blocs - to sort out their differences and measure up to the majors of the day - for the UK to increasingly wish to breakaway from one is anathema to no-nonsense moderate thinking.
The debate that has always simmered in the back burner of British life now seems to have reached boiling point.
Dithering won't help when clarity is required.
The UK must be part of the solution to the EU's multiple problems and challenges.
Not a permanent source of anxiety, sovereign demands and added concerns.
'The Economist' is a renowned British institution whose independent voice must be heard on a plethora of vital issues. This is one of them.
The point the newspaper makes here should be a powerful contribution to the nagging assertiveness and doubts of many sitting at polar opposites of opinion in the UK.
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