Posted on 06/25/2016 11:06:59 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
For centuries, this modest little island in the North Sea has punched well above its weight on the international stage: It built a global empire, beat back the Nazi tide and stood shoulder to shoulder with the United States during a decades-long standoff with the Soviets.
But now that Britain has stunned the world with its decision to exit the European Union, experts say it will be focused inward for the foreseeable future.
“I don’t think there will be the capacity or the infrastructure to look outward in the next five years,” said Ian Kearns, director of the London-based European Leadership Network. “With all our diplomatic resources focused on extracting concessions from the E.U., we won’t be in anything other than reactive mode on other issues.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
We actually have a trade surplus with the UK, so I'm sure we will want to expand our trade with the UK.
A freer and liberated people are always the best choice and always the more prosperous people. Don’t worry so much.
This is such sore cruzerman material. Waahhh!
The UK looking inward post-Brexit?
Yeah, wrong.
They are now free to pursue trade deals on their own terms, just like prosperous free Switzerland.
Down with the EU!
Down with the globalists!
Piss on the merkel of life!
Obama is that you?
“The prices will not necessarily go up.”
The prices already went up. The British pound is in a free fall against the Euro. The Italian tomatoes and German fridges are more expensive already. And the EU hasn’t even started slapping tariffs on UK products. The pound will fall further.
“I forsee a train wreck but I could be wrong.”
Your last statement should have been your first. To the elites, this is nothing more than butt hurt disdain for those who choose to map their own destiny, period. They will try to intimate and obfuscate their way into punishing those who chose to be the writers of their future, not a bunch of self appointed bureaucrats answerable to nobody.
What they are totally devoid of is the knowledge that, left to their own devices, the cream will rise to the top of the New Britain not because of cultural placement but because the Trump vision is taking hold. Smart deals that benefit everyone, not some un-elected pointy head in Brussels who could give a crap about anyone but their own feather nest, ala, Hillary Clinton.
The gig is up on their Soros steered Globalist Politburo wet dream and it is, as always, blunted by the self determination and resiliency of individual spirit, more commonly known as the human spirit. The Declaration of Independence says it best and most completely;
“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
Stop it you liberal gloBULList shill.
It’s about stopping Islamization of England you twit.
Because of its intellectual and economic superiority. This came from its CULTURE. Once it began importing the inferior, more savage, less freedom-minded cultures of the Islamic world, Britain weakened. The E.U. did not make England stronger. It's insane immigration policies made her much weaker.
Little england, they wish! All trump has to do is make a pact with england and those who want out
Your view is that the EU is the only market available to England. While they were in, that is a correct statement, but how badly has not being in the EU hurt Switzerland?
The world is a much smaller place and given the need for creative alternative thinking, somebody in England is going to do very well in the greenhouse business if tomatoes are in such high demand, plus they will be fresher. Given the VAT, just how much will the English save?
As far as refrigerators are concerned, no big deal since most of the smaller ones are made in the Asian sector, if not the larger ones now as well. Just look to our own market for those and Samsung has cornered that market that used to be known as relabeling to Kenmore. Who made Kenmore’s? Everybody but Kenmore. England’s situation while in was they had to receive from the EU and prohibited from finding a better deal.
Geez, there is so much more wrong with the EU than the utopia magic being perpetuated on the, in their view, dumasses. it has always been that way and they will continue to try and control the population as long as elitism is given a chance to do so. Self determination is the best bet against it.
“how badly has not being in the EU hurt Switzerland?”
“the Swiss Confederation has adopted various provisions of European Union law in order to participate in the Union’s single market.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland%E2%80%93European_Union_relations
Look, I don’t really care that much about this one way or the other. I was just commenting on the article.
I’m sure that little England will be just fine. It will be just like Athens just before the Persian invasion.
I love all of the chicken little talk. The EU will shatter into a million pieces when nations, with their own unique identities, get tired of paying for all of the parasites and simply leave overnight.
“Brexit makes EU’s dissolution ‘practically irreversible’: George Soros”
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/25/brexit-makes-eus-dissolution-practically-inevitable-george-soros.html
Little England stood alone in 1940 and 1941 and that worked out fairly well for Western Europe.
Well now. For someone who says “I don’t really care that much about this one way or the other.”, you certainly are putting a lot of effort on the caring side by making your own arguments to support the view of the article with others on this thread.
Give it up already, the horse is already dead and beating it any further will not change the inevitability that it is already decaying, just like the EU. The only thing is that the smell of the EU is just now becoming apparent and the elites can’t create enough frankincense to make it go away. They were the ones who killed the thing, now they are looking to anyone else to clean it up by declaring he horse did it to himself, never mind the bullet hole in its forehead.
WaPo links should be banned from free republic.
London + New York = Financial Power
“They cut themselves off from a €14.3 trillion market”
That is ludicrous.
“in exchange for nothing. Not smart.”
You mean the difference between liberty and sovereignty and a dictatorial bureaucracy is nothing?
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