It is a little like a group of old soaks in the golf club bar, deciding to vote on whether to stay with their ill-favoured wives, divorce them, or seek a free love arrangement. Suitably emboldened by gin, they can vote for free love if they like. That does not mean their spouses will agree.
— Bagehot’s Notebook: “The House of Commons Ponders Free Love, or the EU Equivalent”
