In the end, the British will be unhappy, and it will all be the EU's fault…
Headline in my rather serious morning paper was: "The British launch themselves over the edge of a cliff".
Maybe that's the strategy? Hoping the EU will still catch it...
A bit like the TBTF companies ten years ago? ‘Let's keep on doing this, someone will eventually rescue us so that we don't have to actually do things right by ourselves’?
The problem is, FIAT can't buy the UK. I think.
I want a link to that headline.
I don't get why we're suddenly acting like the United States. "We have everything you want and we know you're going to beg us to give it to you."
In fact, what with all the plaintive cries that the EU not instantly kowtowing would be considered aggressive and unreasonable, I'm starting to wonder if Trump's spirit has possessed May as well.
Probably. It's really Oerdin's position, the puny natives should tremble before our might and praise our majestic… majesty.
Actually that is one of my four big risks of Brexit. Conservative party ministers will talk themselves into doing daft deals.
Fixed that for you. It's a bit like Monsieur Gove.
The UK needs a critical review panel with some experienced and disinterested busnessmen to review proposed deals.
And health and safety men, environmental impact assessment, and of course some representatives of the workforce?
Hos does a deal on tariffs offers "nothing in return"? We lower ours, you lower yours.
Isn't that what the common market was, anyway, barring the tax rebates imposed on a helpless Britain by the EU during Thatcher's tenure?
The Indians had open borders with the UK when they were mostly part of the British Empire, but they wanted independence which the UK freely granted them.
That independence resulted in over a million British (and many anglo-indians) having to leave India in a hurry (repatriation by ancestry)
and it is pure cheek for the republic of India to now demand settlement rights in the much more densely populated United Kingdom.
Bearing in mind Anglo-Indian history, I don't mind them trying that line on, but we shouldn't give them anything more than an amused smile.
And I don't think that Theresa May will roll over and concede that in exchange for a vague promise that the UK may sell financial services in India.
Never mind the fact that the British and Anglo-Indians were the cogs of an expansionist imperialist engine that took their country by force in order to, not to beat around the bush, exploit their natural resources and workforce to profit the metropolis then.
I was as the time recollecting the population density of England itself which is over 400 per square km although I wrote down the United Kingdom.
It
is the only part of the UK which actually voted to Leave.
The current appeal is to "unity", although they've yet to give any explanation as to why we should want to unify, or what benefits unit will bring. The assumption seems to be that unity is a self-evidently Good Thing, and that will be enough to quiet the nagging voice that this all going to end very badly.
Just as with Drumpf, ‘unity’ means ‘all of you do as I say, shut up except to cheer me on, I have a secret plan to make us #1 again or, failing that, at least #2’.
This isn't just the english being english. The calls for a referendum in the past (Blair period) were about securing they would not have the euro currency and keep the pound; they weren't about leaving the Eu. Enter 2004 (mass expansion with client microstates and others) and 2008- charade with austerity, and you have the current situation you don't like but remain myopic as to what caused it and choose to just blame the english/british for it.
