1. Very thankful that the UK is getting out while it still can.
2. At least now, the unification proponents are being explicit and clear about the true objective: One country with one central government. For the past several decades, they have been very slippery/evasive on that point, when they weren’t simply outright-lying.
3. It’s not just the Germans. Things could never have gotten to this point if the academic/media/political class in a lot of other countries weren’t just as supportive.