I've used similar phrases on my EU travels a fair bit since the UK voted to leave the EU almost three years ago. Fellow Europeans seem ready to accept that some British citizens feel a shared remorse about Brexit. European citizens feel sorry for us soon-to-be ex-EU folk. But while we, as a people, still have the sympathy of so many of the EU's half-billion citizens, the British state is not faring so favourably. Prime Minister Theresa May in particular has become the focus of many of her EU partners' frustrations.

Source: CNN March 24, 2019 09:00 UTC