In 2016 A.D. a small island nation representing less than 1% of the worlds population but one of the richest countries in the world decided that it couldn't sha...re even a tiny amount of that wealth with its close neighbours or people from other countries who didn't have as much as them.
A point of historical interest is that the referendum was won because elderly and working class people who were getting little support under the right wing austerity based government of the time were convinced that by leaving the worlds largest mechanism for sharing they would somehow end up with a fairer society where people would share with them more.
This led to an even more unfair society and the small island nation ended up being devided up even further, based on the same logic, until it ended up being 3 nations full of people who believed that the smaller they were the less they would have to share with others and therefore the more people would share with them.
In hindsight this logic was fundamentaly flawed from a social, economic and even moral point of view but at the time a man with funny hair said it was true.
Over the coming decade this tiny island of 3 nations became politicaly irelevant and the unrealistic level of self importance it had built up in the 17th and 18th century through colonisation and some early technology innovations were of little importance in the modern world.
Whilst historians agree that leaving the EU accelerated the demise, the underlying cause was a social phenomenon where no one wanted to share with each other.
