How one midstate professor from Ireland views Brexit

(Harrisburg) — Great Britain’s dramatic exit from the European Union is causing financial turmoil overseas.

A professor at a midstate college says the move will also have much farther-reaching impacts.

After Great Britain voted to exit the European Union, U.S. stocks went on a steep decline.

Elizabethtown College Professor Dr. Mark Harman says conditions are even worse across the Atlantic.

But he adds that all thefinancial upheaval in Great Britain should have been foreseen.

“A lot of this was predicted. So it’s not surprising–I suppose the big surprise is that people voted to leave, and somehow disregarded the inevitable,” says Harman.

Harman traces some of the problems to division within Britain.

The vote to exit the European Union was close, and he says it’s resulted in hostility.

He adds: “It’s a very divided country. Bitterly divided.”

Harman says much of that division is between the young and old. Younger Brits overwhelmingly voted to stay in the European Union.

But he says much the older generation want the country to have more independence.