It's one thing to want to see Britain worse off due to Brexit in order to preserve the EU, it's another to want the country to completely collapse.

Those two things mean more or less the same thing colloquially. I don't think the UK will literally collapse in the same way Syria has although that would be pretty funny if it did tbh.

That's not what any ally or friend would want to happen to another.

Why would the EU want the UK as its friend? Its a declining postcolonial country that hasn't realised that it doesn't control 1/3 of the world anymore. Now that UKIPs policy division are effectively running the country through May the country is beyond a joke.

Leave voters would surely be vindicated if the EU decided to go out of its own way to punish a departing member rather than forge a new, constructive partnership. Doesn't sound like a union I'd wish to be a part of and would go against the principles the EU was founded upon.

Good luck trying to have a constructive partnership with the retarded kid that shits all over the food table because he couldn't get his way about the menu choices for once. Most of the Brexiteers will be dead before the UK leaves the EU so who cares if they will claim to be vindicated?