Brexit Metaphor No 90.
Isolated or discriminated communities often develop a "siege mentality": they get united in order to survive and by pulling their act together succeed where others have failed. Armenians, Jews and Singaporeans have suffered persecution and are some of the examples of what unity can achieve. These communities support each other and rally behind a common cause. Imagine what a difference it would make for the development of entrepreneurship, for example, if you had a family network that would always lend you money when in need.
Given that a Singapore-on-Thames deregulation experiment would be politically impossible to implement in the UK, Britain's probably only other remaining economic (and psychological) argument for Brexit is as an attempt to create a "siege mentality". This could potentially tap skills and resources that the British had not suspected they had inside them before.
Ironically, it sounds like Britain does not feel itself enough of an island and needs to convince itself it needs to be more of an island. Go figure!
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