Posted on 11/25/2016 7:04:02 AM PST by Olog-hai
Since Britain voted to leave the European Union, U.K. officials have had one message: Brexit means Brexit.
Now they have EU leaders’ reply: And it’s going to hurt.
The prime minister of Malta, whose country is about to assume the EU presidency, is the latest leader to dash Britain’s hopes of an easy divorce, signaling that the 27 other nations will drive a hard bargain.
Joseph Muscat told the BBC that “there will not be a situation when the U.K. has a better deal than it has today.”
“In the U.K. it’s fair game to bash Brussels and then you don’t need to be surprised that in Brussels they bash you back,” Muscat said in an interview broadcast Friday. “So this is a bit of Catch-22. It won’t be a case whether one side gains and the other side loses. We are all going to lose something.” …
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“Fog on channel, Continent cut off...”
The U.K. needs no advice from the descendants of Maltese pirates. Execute BREXIT, forge deals with Trump and maintain your relationship with the rest of your Commonwealth and to hell with the EU. The U.K. will be around to salvage the smoking ruins of the Muzzified EU if they are foolish.
Get out before they have an army.
People of Britain missing the opportunity to be ruled over by someone from Malta, go figure...
You misspoke, sir. There will not be a situation where the UK will not have a better deal. She will be free to write her own laws, revoke her own absurd regulations on business, cut her own taxes, and do business anywhere, and at any price, in the world.
Is this the EU or the USSR ? LOL
With President Trump here in the US, Great Britain will be able to tell Malta, which GB saved in WWII, to urinate up Megan Kelly’s pole and make them lick it off afterwards.
ROTF!!! Darn, I think I just broke something...
The lying AP does have a way with headlines, don’t they.
At least they appear to be able to secede without some nutty, Euro latter-day William Tecumseh Sherman having visions while burning their land to the ground.
The USSR also had clauses in its constitutions ostensibly permitting their soviet socialist republics to “freely secede”. Article 50 is the same, but with far more draconian detail.
All Britain needs to do is tell the EU to FOAD. They could twist the knife by becoming a tax haven for Europeans who are desperate to sheild wealth from predatory taxation and cherry pick the best and brightest of Europe for immigration and citizenship. And if the you didn’t like it, what is it gonna do about it, fight?
That’s exactly what this is...a divorce.Britain,the wife,has filed for divorce citing “irreconcilable differences”.The EU big shots (the husband) sees that he’ll lose in this deal...big time...and decides to make this as difficult on the wife as possible.
The UK is already experiencing economic benefits just by announcing separation. The economic improvement will go away if it becomes apparent that the politicians are going to weasel out.
There is no bargaining necessary. The UK needs to simply sever all ties NOW. Whatever happens thereafter will happen and whatever it might be England will be the better for it.
There is no bargaining necessary. The UK needs to simply sever all ties NOW. Whatever happens thereafter will happen and whatever it might be, England will be the better for it.
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