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Well what do you think will happen? The companies and bigwigs will huff and puff a bit, but they won't really be affected where it hurts. The people who voted for it will continue being screwed over and exploited, will continue to blame it on immigrants or elitists and the world will keep turning.
 
Lothian said:
What now? It is easy.
Stop free movement of EU citizens to the UK,
Put in place Free trade agreements with the EU,
Don't contribute a penny to the EU,
Spend £350,000,000 a week extra on the NHS and public services.

That is what people voted for.
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Well we all know the likes of BJ and NF are all for supporting our NHS you only have to look at their past records.... totally safe in their hands.
 
Caper said:
Really though. When reading all this sky is falling bs, one must remember that far more then a skeptics board this is for the most part a politically far left echo chamber.
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You do know the leader of the Remain group was our most right wing PM in modern times?
 
I don't know much about economics and trading blocs but I'm trying to see the upside of Brexit. Which IMO is that a country's general population gets to weigh in on policy issues. Even if the little guy is wrong, he has a say and this sets the right example IMO: policy can be changed, power can transfer peaceably if democratic structures are in place.

Plus maybe I can afford to visit the UK this year after all, with a falling pound :D. Even though using frequent-fliers is virtually impossible. The website gives me virtually no options; 95 percent of dates are unavailable. Even domestically with partner airlines rewards are basically nil.
 
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Minoosh said:
I don't know much about economics and trading blocs but I'm trying to see the upside of Brexit. Which IMO is that a country's general population gets to weigh in on policy issues. Even if the little guy is wrong, he has a say and this sets the right example IMO: policy can be changed, power can transfer peaceably if democratic structures are in place.

Plus maybe I can afford to visit the UK this year after all with a falling pound :D .
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Unless we're going to hold a plebiscite over every policy the situation hasn't changed for the little man. Both the UK and EU are representative democracies* where we vote for our party of choice, members of parliament are elected and they make decisions on our behalf.

The idea of a democratic deficit is yet another myth which has been carefully cultivated by Eurosceptic politicians and media outlets over the course of decades.


* - It could be argued that the EU is far more democratic given that there isn't an un-elected second house in the EU parliament and the D'Hondt system is used to select the MEPs
 
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lionking said:
The EU will strengthen as a result of this outcome in my opinion. Let's wait and see.
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Do you think the EU would, therefore, have weakened if the UK had voted to stay in?

Or do you think that the EU would have strengthened whatever happened (rather like it hasn't been doing for the last decade)?

I don't think Angela Merkel has said "The solution is more Europe" for a while.
 
I don't know much about economics and trading blocs but I'm trying to see the upside of Brexit. Which IMO is that a country's general population gets to weigh in on policy issues. Even if the little guy is wrong, he has a say and this sets the right example (e.g. policy can be changed, power can transfer peaceably if democratic structures are in place).

Maybe I can afford to visit the UK this year after all with a falling pound :D. BA rewards points are basically useless during any remotely desirable time of year.
 
The Don said:
The notion that the UK and US would come to a free trade agreement which is in the UK's favour is fanciful.
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The U.S. and U.K. did a total of $114.2 billion in trade in goods in 2015, according to the U.S. Census Bureau (the U.S. imported $57.8 billion from the U.K. and exported $56.4 billion to the U.K.). Seems the two countries are already able to trade fairly well.
 
lionking said:
Just the start of this stupid decision.
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I can understand the argument on both sides for their decision, but I do believe that the announcement to the employees was hasty. It will take years for the separation to be made. From memory (I can't find a source at the moment) - Greenland took 5 years or so to complete all their negotiations (fishing rights being the main sticking point).
 
The UK was expected to lead the EU Council for six months as from 1st January 2017. I wonder whether this will still be the case. Can a member State which applies for exist reasonnably lead the UE Council?
 
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