If they decide to rejoin at some point, perhaps the EU could demand elimination of the pound.
Out of spite? Why is that what you think the EU is like?
Out of “you already used up your special treatment last time around”?
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Agree. I'd always argue that this was broadly an anti austerity / inequality vote: people just basically pissed off with having a rubbish life voting against some notion of "authority" or "centralisation".
The sad fact is that it's exactly these people (in the Midlands, NE, those on lower wages, in rural communities, etc) who (generalising a bit, not much) voted out - these are the communities who will be hit hardest.
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#54If they decide to rejoin at some point, perhaps the EU could demand elimination of the pound.
Plenty (8 of 27) of EU countries don't use the Euro. Denmark, Sweden, Norway for example.
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#55If they decide to rejoin at some point, perhaps the EU could demand elimination of the pound.
That would be entirely counter-productive. There is little support for eliminating the pound even among Remainers.
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#56Yay. 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.
Those new old people will have a bit less nostalgia for the world wars and the empire.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Might not be all bad if we get CANZUK out of it. Here's hoping.
Except the ex-colonies want nothing to do with the UK. We can smell the fear and desperation. There is nothing in it for us. We aren't going to bail out the UK or take the influx of economic refugees.
> Except the ex-colonies want nothing to do with the UK.
But they all signed trade agreements with the UK? So this is clearly not true.
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#58Please look after our star [1]. I hope we get it back in the not too distant future. [1] https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/brexit-latest-eu-chief-gu... (I donated to fund the projection.)
Aww, that's nice :-)
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#59This will prove to be the worst geopolitical decision of all time.
Re: UK formally leaves European Union after 48 years
#60As a Scotsman, this is a sad day. My only hope is that we leave the Union and that Ireland can work out it's differences and pursue reunification. There is nothing else left for it. A tragic time to be British and nothing to celebrate here.