Maybe if you live in the United States, Brexit is not a big deal for you. Is it a big deal, however, for what it reveals about our “leaders.”

Almost two years ago, the people of Great Britain voted to leave the European Union. By all accounts it was a fair referendum. Generally speaking, people are expected to abide by the results of a referendum; if they don’t, then why have the referendum in the first place?

What happened in Great Britain was the unexpected. The people who voted to leave won the referendum; the “remainers” lost. In a nutshell, the elites lost; they got caught napping with their pants down. It’s the old story of the tortoise and the hare. The tortoises worked; the hares slept.

But you see, old chap, elections only count when the elites win; they don’t count when the people win. When the people win, why something must be wrong.

Thus the push by the elites for a new referendum on Brexit.

People clearly didn’t know what they were voting for, right?

Au contraire; they knew exactly what they were voting for which invites an important question for leaders all over the globe.

Which is this: Why are you elites different? Why must we, the regular people, abide by the results of a referendum when we lose, yet you are not obligated to do so when you lose? Why must we eat the pain and suffer silently when we lose, but you must not? Why are you different?

There is only one way to go into cold ocean water.

Jump into it and scream.

Standing on the water’s edge thinking about it won’t work.

Gradually tiptoeing in won’t work either. You’ll only prolong the agony.

Wishing the water were warmer?

Nope.

Chickening out?

Well, then you’re a chicken, and you deny the reason why you decided to go into the ocean in the first place.

You decided to go because you wanted a better place.

Your old life wasn’t working out.

So what are you going to do?

The only way to do it is to do it.

Pay the price.

In many respects entering the cold ocean water is like getting out of a bad lease.

The only way to get out of that bad lease is to whip out your big checkbook and start writing checks.

There is always a price to be paid to get out of something bad.

So it is with Brexit.

The British felt that something wasn’t quite right with their current EU life.

So they bravely went down to the water’s edge, tipped a toe in and said, “My, the water is a little colder than I thought it was.”

So they backed off a little.

Sometimes the waiting is worse than the medicine.

Now, some are saying, “Wait a minute, we should rethink this.”

Maybe so, maybe not.

Maybe Britain needs to bite the bullet, scream at the top of its lungs and jump in.

You know, you can always scamper out.

Or maybe you’ll like it.

Maybe you’ll enter a better place and be glad you did.

If we look at Brexit today, we see that the situation is bogged down by the Irish Border. At least that is what the “leaders” want people to believe.

Jargon such as “backstop” is bandied about.

Theresa May, the Prime Minister, states, “Nobody said Brexit would be easy.”

Actually, Madame Prime Minister, Brexit is quite easy when you want to do it.

You put your right foot first, then your left. The body will follow.

Of course, if you drag your feet while resorting to silly buzzwords like “backstop” you’ll be able to fool the people that real work is being done.

While you are dragging your feet you can say things like: “Good people are working very hard on this thorny issue.”

Yes, we in the United States have seen this trick this before. Say, do you leaders get together and share ideas?

Some years ago, when the talk in the United States was all about restraining the budget – none of that quaint talk anymore – some bozo in the United States Senate thought of the buzzword sequestration. If the Senators couldn’t agree what to cut, the Senate would go into “sequestration.”

What a howler that was.

Of course, nothing happened, but the public was fooled. There’s nothing like a good buzzword to make the public think that something real and substantive is going on.

The game, of course, is to delay, delay and delay.

Until what?

Until the British economy collapses?

The people voted to get out because the economy wasn’t working for them. That’s the true message of the referendum.

The Remainers don’t get that message. They don’t even push for an alternative arrangement with the EU. To them the EU was okay as it was. Of course it was when you live in the City of London.

That should show you how insensitive they are to the plight of the people.

To the Remainers, the message of the referendum was that they didn’t get out their vote. So they play games.

They push for another vote; they state that the Leavers are stupid and jingoistic (maybe so, but a vote is a vote). And when that doesn’t work, they create a bogeyman in the form of the Irish border.

Oh, my gosh, the Irish Border. What will we ever do?

I’ll tell you what you do.

You do what the people told you to do, Ms. May: Leave.

What can be done to fix Brexit?

It stands between a rock and a hard place.

Donald Tusk has spoken; he was quite intransigent.

His intransigence makes the case Nigel Farage has patiently tried to explain for years now – that Brussels is a tyrant.

Since there will be no compromise from the bullies in Brussels, Britain must choose between acquiescence or liberty. It’s never an easy choice.

Stay pat on fourteen or take a hit.

There are no guarantees in life.

Britain stands at a crossroads like no other.

Leave means leave. Leave means no security within the existing union.

It’s always a scary choice.

Now is not the time to be timid. What is required now is a bold stroke by a bold leader.

Ironically Brexit has forced open a sticking point in Brexit that could be used as a means to an end.

That sticking point, of course, is Northern Island which has always been a sore point between the British and Irish.

Rather than view it as an obstacle an enlightened leader could use it as a means to solve a problem.

Northern Ireland, of course, is Irish, not British, and should be part of Ireland. Yet an Ireland separate from Britain is, like Britain, too weak alone to withstand the tyranny of Brussels.

An open border or a closed border would only lead to conflict as one side would inevitably become more prosperous than the other.

In short Britain and Ireland need each other as they always have.

For better or worse, nature has chained them together at the hip.

What Britain and Ireland can do is forge a new nation with the five regional states of England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland giving each a fair amount of substantive home rule – which is what they want.

The United Kingdom would cease to exist.

Northern Ireland would be its own boss within a greater union.

The British would thus leave Northern Ireland for good.

What the British would ask of the Irish is simply this: You join us in leaving the European Union.

We all jump together, or none of us jumps at all.

And why you may ask would the Irish join; the Irish economy is doing great, right?

Not as well as you might think.

The Irish economy works for the information and finance sectors. There are still many people left behind.

When Britain finally does leave the EU, the lot of the common man in Britain will boom. Human capital will move east and goods will flow west.

Britain will boom and Ireland will suffer.

The EU will demand a hard border between the two Irelands, but the Irish will know better that they are better off with Britain than standing alone, like Greece, at the mercy of Brussels.

What should we call this new nation?