Y’all going to start a Megxit thread? Somewhere the writers of Downton Abbey are breaking out their typewriters, that’s for sure.
As reality sets in, the cost for Brexit becomes clearer. The latest projections having the cost exceeding all payments made to the EU in the last 47 years! Maybe in two generations they will break even. The level of self sabotage is astounding. At least they will have their blue passports back (although they could have had them before...but I digress.)
With Johnson's government taking a harder stance again the US on Iran and Huawei, that savior trade deal will hang in the balance.
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One of Boris’s promises was that the money that was sent to the EU would be used for domestic spending. It was a lie and now they have lost more for the foreseeable future.
We're getting awful close now.
Looking to be less of a bang and more of a wimpier. Still, you can get your commemorative 50p coins to mark the occasion. England took over a quarter of the planet and three hundred years later it might be right back where she started.
https://news.yahoo.com/hello-invisib...100251497.html
yeah, seems like well over a quarter, quite the reach back then. Anyone interested in history might want to read To Rule the Waves, story of how the British navy made it all come about.
Meanwhile as I head over next week, I was prepared to fill my suitcase with Spam (the real stuff) but evidently things will be pretty normal for the next 11 months while the trade bickering begins. Don't want to hear about them running out of Yorkshire pudding..
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Some of the British do not like being ruled by bureaucrats in Brussels, just as some of us don't like being ruled by bureaucrats in Washington. It's called the administrative state.
Europe as a Westernized society is on the way out. I have every confidence it will happen at some point after we're all gone. Angela Merkel is the architect.
The running joke in Europe is if you can’t get a law passed in your own country become a MEP and get it passed in the entire zone.
On a side note, the first repercussions: Austria, Germany, and Slovenia have confirmed they will not extradite fugitives during the transition period. It’s little unexpected things like this that will be maddening.
One question I have had over the long course of this soap opera is why the European Union was not prepared for this eventuality. The right to leave is explicit. No one doubts it. Were they so smug in their beliefs in the benefits of the union that they were sure no one would ever leave?
Police find a truck bomb potentially linked to Brexit Day and Irish Republican Army dissidents. That's concerning.
had to give this thread a bump after a week in London...Brexit per se not affecting much, but turmoil abounds...a few days ago Boris (BoJo) fired his chancellor of the exchequer to seize control of the budget, as well as numerous other members of his cabinet including the Northern Ireland guy, minister of N.I. Whatnot or something (...pandemonium ensued...he has a few VERY odd advisers...the London newspaper scene is great, many great objective articles about the moves, accompanied by many hilarious subjective opinion pieces, highly entertaining...took me a couple hours a day to read my way thru it all...good (and unusual) to find a city with multiple papers...