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UK formally leaves European Union after 48 years

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Re: UK formally leaves European Union after 48 years

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Didn't this happen 31st of January 2020 ? That's what wikipedia says.

Yup, it's the end of the transition period. But UK formally left EU 11 months ago. Unless of course the term "formally" has come to suffer similar inflation and inversion as the term "literally".

I think it's confusing to some because not much changed until this transition period actually ended, so for the casual folk Brexit only just happened

Re: UK formally leaves European Union after 48 years

#22
post #15

Yay. Now we're free. Oh wait, no, it's just that absolutely everything got harder, more expensive, more nationalistic, more pathetic and sad. It's all incredibly depressing. Here's hoping our kids manage to vote us back in as soon as those Tory f's are out.

The FPTP voting system is destroying western democracies.

Re: UK formally leaves European Union after 48 years

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post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Might not be all bad if we get CANZUK out of it. Here's hoping.

Arguably the best country name trade deal abbreviation since renegotiating NAFTA to CAMUS (I know they use a different order but this suggestion is too good).

Ironically I like EU better, kind of sounds like an ambulance approaching.

Re: UK formally leaves European Union after 48 years

#28
post #15

Yay. Now we're free. Oh wait, no, it's just that absolutely everything got harder, more expensive, more nationalistic, more pathetic and sad. It's all incredibly depressing. Here's hoping our kids manage to vote us back in as soon as those Tory f's are out.

Labour were decimated in the last election. I don't suspect they'll be in power with a mandate to rejoin the EU. Btw, things aren't as split down party lines as they may seem. Half the Tory party are Europhiles, and I know many of my Labour friends are anti-EU in a libertarian small government sense.

Indeed, trade deals and international relationships are bipartisan issues, labour’s last leader was anti EU for decades. The party lines in the UK are drawn along class and aspirational values, not policy decisions- although when a referendum is called 2 sides always step out to divide up the electorate in their favour

Re: UK formally leaves European Union after 48 years

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post #15

Yay. Now we're free. Oh wait, no, it's just that absolutely everything got harder, more expensive, more nationalistic, more pathetic and sad. It's all incredibly depressing. Here's hoping our kids manage to vote us back in as soon as those Tory f's are out.

> Here's hoping our kids manage to vote us back in

New old people are created every day. So I wouldn't necessarily count on it.

I hope you're right though.

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