09-04-2019, 07:57 AM
I voted out... and to my shame, I admit that like many others, it was a vote powered by emotion. "What had the EU ever done for me?" ... etc. etc. What I fondly imagined, was a removal from the political arena, (which I still detest as the corrupt Franco/German alliance that it is), whilst still maintaining trade links. What I did not foresee, was the little Englander tsunami that came with the result. "We will be great again", "No deal! We will show the world" .... but hang on. Have any of the "No dealers" stopped to look at the world that we're supposedly going to conquer? It's a basket case. Economically, the world is slipping into recession, and politically, the lunatics have taken over the asylum. Putin, Trump and Xi, (let's add Johnson to that while we're about it), are all despotic egomaniacs, who have nothing but self interest at heart, and I really don't see these as a our trade buddies that will take us forward to a glorious future ... never mind the fact that it might take years to set up new trade deals anyway. These are strange, dangerous times, in which many, if not most nations are playing the protectionist card, and any deals we may get from a shrinking market are unlikely to be that advantageous to us... particularly as Russia and China hate us anyway, and any deal with Trump will have "America First" at it's heart.
So I've changed my mind. If we can't get a deal that maintains the status quo, (at least to a large degree on trade), then I'd rather stay as we are.
Our one saving grace IMHO, is that we never joined the Euro, which I believe is heading for an almighty crash in the next year or so.
So I've changed my mind. If we can't get a deal that maintains the status quo, (at least to a large degree on trade), then I'd rather stay as we are.
Our one saving grace IMHO, is that we never joined the Euro, which I believe is heading for an almighty crash in the next year or so.