"Danny" Blanchflower is exaggerating to enhance his own self-importance

"Danny" Blanchflower needs to make up his mind.

Either the United Kingdom is closely connected to the EU so that we "must" remain members because we have nowhere else to go, OR the United Kingdom is closely connected to the US so that if their economy goes down ours goes down with it.

Both assertions can't be true.

Indeed, it is possible that neither assertion is true.

It is possible that "Danny" Blanchflower is exaggerating to enhance his own self-importance, to get people to read his (boring) articles, and to try to convince us that he knows what he is talking about.