I don’t get it. I began planning my exit almost six years ago when it was fully obvious that merely voting couldn’t fix that country. We still vote from afar. The ones who stayed have a fight on their hands whether they admit it or not.

Should I have stayed and fought? My family and my wife’s were only Americans for one generation each. Our grandparents got swept up in the country’s postwar economic might, and we grew up in the scraps of what remained while our parents’ generation let Reagan accelerate a decades-long heist.

We’ve no illusions about the history of the UK or its current trajectory, but at least there aren’t heaps of guns lying around. Sheesh.