mileslunn
Junior Chimp
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« on: January 29, 2018, 04:04:39 PM » |
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If Brexit doesn't work out well for the UK, than no one. Now if it works out really well, then the EU will likely implode. Also 48% in the UK voted to remain and with the younger voters voting heavily to remain, had the referendum been held 5-10 years later the remain side would have won due to demographic churn as of those voting leave, many will die off. UK was always by far the most Euroskeptic to begin with so if it barely passed there doubt it wouldn't elsewhere. They don't use the Euro, not part of the Scheghen agreement, and while largely symbolic; you almost never see the EU flag on any government building even before Brexit, whereas it is common and in some countries the norm to fly both the national and EU flags on all, most or some government buildings. In Italy, all government buildings fly the EU flag while in France and Germany last time I went, not all of them had EU flags, but many did including their Reichstag and National Assembly as well as most of the time Macron and Merkel will have both the EU and national flags as backdrops whereas unless meeting another leader, you never saw a British PM with the EU flag in the backdrop, just the Union Jack. Add to the fact Britain has much stronger ties due to their past empire with non-European countries than any other European country. So I believe Britain will be the last to leave if they leave at all. I think they will leave but I believe in around 10 years, they will rejoin the Single Market much like Norway, Iceland, and Switzerland and thus that will mean allowing free mobility of labour again.
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