@CStamp
Looks like in general terms nobody, and in particular "the west" is willing to look without filters into the mirror and describe, realize and admit what they see, what we see.

That's why it was a big hear!, hear! when Canada's Carney went out the other day in Davos, speaking out loud common truth's most of us were banned and belittled for just days ago.

Brexit, the refusal to use the metric system, driving on the right side of the street, that's the left lane of course, are just still the remains of the old empire feeling of being special and being right, forwarded from generation to generation.
And that's not a particular quality of the brits, but by all grown up human beings by default.
We call it conservatism, not willing to understand that it's about a maadatory underlying genetic law of nature. Not human nature but mammal nature itself.
For the same reasons, road side hawks fall dead from trees alongside roads that we're cut of from traffic, humans are not allowed to change habits and believes once they are grown up.
Beaten by customs into ancestral behavior and believes because that's what got us here.

Right now it's people like Finland's prime minister (chancellor?) Stubb or the already mentioned Carney that are leading the only way out without mayor conflicts and war for European countries and the west as a whole, and dinosaurs like Germany's chancellor Merz that are the doom for generations to come. Generations of human kind on a global scale.

Or we do manage to decapitate the actual violent system of imposition by the strongest, forwarded since WWII, quite often under a restraining layer of so called western values that couldn't be breached to obviously, or we will burn our ecological niche in no time.

With or without the Uk, with or without the EU.
It's as simple as that.

@ChrisMayLA6