The problem with “progressive” arguments for Brexit is that all the best progressive examples of “what UK could look like” are the successful social democrat economies *in the EU*

The arguments must invent fake examples (eg progressive Singapore, social USA) or remain abstract https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1344650282198831105

Indeed *any* vision of brexit must explain why it is better than Germany, Sweden, France, etc, for the UK, and why the same could not be done within the EU.

This is why people like Cummings and the more articulate libertarians look to technology.

A heady cocktail of high finance, low tax, light regs, could provide a way to fund more or less any tech project. Not just fintech but also pharma, green, ed, manufacturing...

The workforce would be imported, and that would fund private healthcare for “non-citizens”

Then citizens could have protected access to national utilities eg NHS. Nationalism would pivot to citizenship not origin. Cultural investments would promote this.

But, this is ultimately a right wing vision and not progressive. There is no room for Labour here.

If this plays out as above then the UK (or England) will become politically more like the USA. There will be a centre-right party, the Democrats, who are pro-globalisation and corporate-funded immigration and social benefits, and a more national-authoritarian party for Faragists

Both will dance to a 21st century pomp and circumstance.

Progressives will be young Dem radicals, AOC meets AshSarkar, or subsisting in niche environments. Of which there will be few in neo-Albion.