They are making jokes about the BREXIT supporters implying that Britain will soon become impoverished when leaving the EU.
It is more like the opposite. The Irish will be fleeing Ireland and go to Britain to escape the draconian EU.
>>They are making jokes about the BREXIT supporters implying that Britain will soon become impoverished when leaving the EU.
I had a friend this weekend who said that the UK would soon be like Haiti because they are both islands. I reminded him that British history predates the EU by a 1000 years. He said, “yes, but that’s history”.
They've been doing that for years.
We should look at making England and Ireland our 51st and 52nd states, or maybe kick out AK and HI and make them the 49th and 50th states.
It takes 9 hours, 15 minutes to fly to Anchorage; 10 hours, 5 minutes to Honolulu. (non stop in both cases)
It takes 7 hours to fly to Dublin, 7 hours 15 minutes to fly to London. (again non-stop)
That is, after they become England and Ireland again, instead of dumping grounds for the rest of Europe and Africa. It’s more likely than not that a much larger % of current Americans have English or Irish ancestry than any other country (except possibly Germany) at least for now. It would take less than a generation of transition for the US and UK/Ireland to meld.
Of course, there’s that whole monarchy thing to be worked out. We’d have gone full circle ....