I think the EU expanded too quickly and for the wrong reasons (almost entirely economic and short term at that). I find it astonishing that EU membership for Turkey was even in the cards. Many member states have only a theoretical relationship with democracy. Cronyism corruption and disrespect for the press are rampant in countries like Bulgaria. The letting in of Greece was the European macro equivalent of the sears clerk pushing a credit card on you so that you can get 40% off the price of a pair of jeans: short term benefit for a long term headache.

Brexit should be the catalyst for a rethink of where we want globalization to go, how it should happen and how the benefits are to be distributed. Saunders going tsk-tsk is not useful.