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Posted on 06/28/2016 7:47:32 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Britain’s departure from the EU rattled the stock market, refreshed the patriots, rankled the globalists, and rocked effete politicians. Even with the approaching storm, not a bad day for freedom
Well, they did it! Great Britain ripped up their 40-year-old membership card in the European Union and may become “Great” Britain again: you know, sovereignty, security, and stability. Britain was a major player in the European Union, a bloc of 28 nations, making it the biggest trading zone in the world. Membership in the EU permits citizens of one nation to travel and live in other member-nations.
Last year, Britain received almost 350,000 immigrants and about half of them were from other EU nations. And British officials could not give any assurance that they could control further influx from non-English nations. Moreover, skulking in the shadows is the specter of Turkey being accepted into the EU thereby exacerbating the threat of numerous immigrants from Syria and Iraq (both on Turkey’s border) moving freely to Britain.
It did the right thing.
The headline is incorrect. They haven’t left the E.U. yet.
If the EU moderates its act, and becomes more economic again and less politically controlling, it will be a more attractive entity. Britain could rejoin, couldn’t it?
But as it stands now, the EU is headed in a direction that is going to be hard for some of its members. Some will be screwed by immigration they didn’t agree to, some will be harmed economically. Greece gets it both ways.
Did the U.S. make a mistake leaving Britain?
Brexit is the UK's "buyer's remorse" for getting into the EU, 4 decades ago.
“Did the U.S. make a mistake leaving Britain?”
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At this point.............?
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Why does Germany think they are sooooo good, sooooo smart....and now.....soooooo muslimy.
Scotland will make a very big mistake if it stays ,maybe they’ll pay the 350 million pounds a week instead
The EU was always intended to be politically controlling. Even way back in 1957, the Treaty of Rome instituted a common agricultural policy and the bureaucracies to micromanage it. It also had the Commission, Parliament and other assorted bureaucracies in place to dictate all the terms of their “free trade” allegedly without barriers.
No. Next stupid question.
No!
I don't think many of the early members believed it would reach the extent that it has. Also, I think many of the countries that joined were joining for trade reasons. The politics kept encroaching as new Directives were passed.
No.
Britain didn’t leave the EU. The referendum wasn’t any more binding than a primary is for a general election.
NO, the EU is finished. Another failed socialist experiment of global proportions.
Reality is that the Brits have just corrected a mistake.
No they did what rational people do when they find that they are being hosed- they seceded.
I’m certain many members did not. But that means they did not read the treaties.
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