There is a link, but it’s not causal. Brexit is a symptom of an underlying incompetence in UK government that has also led them to worse outcomes than any of their European peers. Just two examples:
- The UK has the worst-insulated homes in Europe, yet in 2012 David Cameron decided to end all subsidies for home-insulation projects as part of his “get rid of all the green crap” agenda.
- In 2017, Centrica (the privatized utility formerly known as British Gas) decommissioned its natural gas storage facility at Rough, which accounted for 70% of the UK’s gas storage capacity. This was approved by minister and free-market-orthodoxy ayatollah Kwasi Karteng, who issued a fatwa that the omnibenevolent market’s ability to provide shall not be contested
