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 ...
Everyone assumes the EU can just carry on as is. No. The EU is already a proto-fascist construct and will have to get nasty if it wants to keep its obvious contradictions contained. It’s massive debt, it’s choke-hold on the PIIGS, its social engineering schemes are all headed for a crack-up. 52% of Brits were simply wise enough to see it early
“Right. Brexit was a revolt against the status quo. The voters were not flipping the bird to the EU. They were flipping the bird to David Cameron. He is gone now. Leaving the EU was just collateral damage.”
I don’t know about that. Every year Brussels was taking more and more power from the Parliament there...pretty soon Cameron was going to be reduced to an administrator of EU directives, and nothing else.
It was clearly a vote against transferring Number 10 and related to Brussels.
“...and it’s unlikely that the US Congress will ratify free trade agreements anytime soon.”
I agree that Obama/Hillary will want to PUNISH the UK for the vote, but I think you underestimate Trump’s respect for them - he’ll work with them.
So we’ll know in November.
Experts you can always find them at the horse track and in Vegas.
No Danes, they keep trying to take pieces of the Canadian North. They want to control the Northwest passage. At any rate, they aren’t friends.
Please don’t take this the wrong way, but are you retarded?
I’ve seen you in other threads. Are you a paid hack? Are you a globalist? Perhaps an Islamic lover? These are all valid questions. I can’t see how any sane person would think trying to secure one’s sovereignty and freedom is a bad thing.
For someone who doesn’t care, you sure are crying and carrying on like a petulant child.
Perhaps I should have put a /saracasm tag at the end.
Ok, help me out then. Please tell me all the things that British citizens couldn’t do because of the tyranny of Brussels but will be able to do now.
The UK can begin fishing beyond 2 miles of their own shores again. The EU had forbidden them from doing so. Now the UK can tell the EU to eff itself.
As an American, we too tell the EU to eff itself.
;)
Your question doesn’t merit an answer, because if you don’t already know, nothing I say will help.
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.
Yes, but the EU has punitive taxes for imports from countries it doesn't like, such as China.
As one small example, my UK cousin was amazed at the cheap price of efficient light bulbs here in the US. Apparently EU import duties are very high and quotas low.
As an American, we too tell the EU to eff itself.
This article is quite amazing, and shows how the UK was under the EU boot...
Right. Brexit was a revolt against the status quo. The voters were not flipping the bird to the EU. They were flipping the bird to David Cameron. He is gone now. Leaving the EU was just collateral damage.
Trump is not a UK politician. It’s not his job to defend the interests of the British people. I don’t think he ever said that Brexit is in their best interests. He only celebrated the downfall of David Cameron who attacked him last year.
Um... what pipe are you smoking from? You think the rest of Europe suddenly stops trading with England??? SERIOUSLY? You clearly have no idea the financial power England has world wide.
Dude... seriously... tell me you are being sarcastic...
A breath of fresh air for the world. The EU was a facade for just the ruin that has been occurring to these countries. The people of these countries would be irresponsible not to insist that every one of those countries exits in an orderly fashion now that the reality of the what the EU was all about are now apparent to a majority of the people in the EU countries. It’s either continue political correctness and lost your country entirely or take back your country.
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