Sri Lanka, May 8 -- This writer is not British - or even remotely European - and admittedly doesn't know the laws or regulations that govern membership of the European Union. But politics and how countries get on with each other and how countries should set about pursuing their best interests is of fundamental interest to most readers.

In that context, it's sad that our former colonizer Britain - and that's an entirely different story -has left the European Union and is floundering in rough seas as a result. This writer has written previously about Brexit, but this article is about salvaging something from the mess that the UK cast itself into when they rushed into a Referendum which the current Foreign Secretary, then PM, thought he wou...