Dear Britons.
Before you escalate your phony civil war over your Brexit scam, kindly assess your reality. In Europe we hardly care for your adored tribal wars, but we do not want a failed state at our borders.
The democratic deficit in the UK is due to the simple fact you never bothered to take the necessary showdown with your medieval ruling class. Neither in terms of a political revolution and a contemporary written constitution nor in terms of personal submission to your betters. You never took responsibility for your future, but always tried to please your Lords and maybe become one of them, or just be a bit posher or better paid than other serfs.
You never learned to live without the free money looted from your colonies. Losing your colonies only made you turn to looting your own society and your own future. That’s the essence of your 40 years of Thatcherite economy. You have constantly been running a trade deficit for many decades, and thus constantly sell off UK assets of all kinds to finance the deficit, every year.
That’s willingly colonizing your own nation.
Now you have allowed the UK to be plundered and pawned, and your own most spoiled generations only got a tiny share of the loot. You are unable to uphold your society without heavy influx of foreign investments in your future and foreigners to do the work, be they educated specialists, well trained craftsmen or merely fruit pickers. You have lost generations and large regions to undereducation and underinvestment in your infrastructure and industries, indebted your youth, made housing unaffordable, and made yourself a colony of your own 0,1% extremely rich Lords, hiding their loot in tax havens. It is your homeless UK citizens dying in your streets, it is your UK children malnourished, you are even eager to plunder each other with buy to let schemes on your housing market.
Submissive serfs and cowards have no right to blame other nations for your inadequacies, no matter how “secure” you imagine your personal situation is. As long you still vote for your feudal lords and willingly buy their scams you are a sorry lot.
Should the UK ever collectively grow a pair and take responsibility for yourself and each other, then you are welcome to cooperate or even disagree with your equals in Europe. But until then, just fix your broken and failed society and show us you have some responsibility, pride and dignity.