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Britain will inevitably exit the European Union, but hopes of a “smooth Brexit” are likely to be thwarted by the EU’s realisation that it’s in its interests to make it as messy as possible.

“I’d never join a club that would accept me as a member,” says Woody Allen’s character in Annie Hall. With the European Union, it is the other way around: The EU would reject new members as anti-democratic as itself.