How weird is Brexit looking?
“To be alone in 1940 among the enemy was heroic, to be alone in 2017 among friends is absurd.” Italian commentator
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GailCob · F
A meaningless, hyper-trite play on words. And anyone who considers the EU and its rat-bag membership as our 'friends' is plumbing the depths of absurdity. Even more, coming from the failing state of Italy.
In politics and in international relations, there are no 'friends': merely acquaintances who, transiently, work together. Far better out of such a flawed union of 27 states, and into the real world of 100+
In politics and in international relations, there are no 'friends': merely acquaintances who, transiently, work together. Far better out of such a flawed union of 27 states, and into the real world of 100+
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@sogdianrock Oh phew!
sogdianrock · 61-69, M
hi Literaturegirl
Captain Haddock: I thought you were an optimist.
Tintin: You were wrong, weren't you? I'm a realist.
Captain Haddock: Ah, it's just another name for a quitter.
Tintin: You can call me what you like. Don't you get it? We failed.
Captain Haddock: Failed. There are plenty of others willing to call you a failure. A fool. A loser. A hopeless souse. Don't you ever say it of yourself. You send out the wrong signal, that is what people pick up. Don't you understand? You care about something, you fight for it. You hit a wall, you push through it. There's something you need to know about failure, Tintin. You can never let it defeat you.
Best wishes
:)
Captain Haddock: I thought you were an optimist.
Tintin: You were wrong, weren't you? I'm a realist.
Captain Haddock: Ah, it's just another name for a quitter.
Tintin: You can call me what you like. Don't you get it? We failed.
Captain Haddock: Failed. There are plenty of others willing to call you a failure. A fool. A loser. A hopeless souse. Don't you ever say it of yourself. You send out the wrong signal, that is what people pick up. Don't you understand? You care about something, you fight for it. You hit a wall, you push through it. There's something you need to know about failure, Tintin. You can never let it defeat you.
Best wishes
:)
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@sogdianrock I love Tintin❤
I am not British, but I have lived there for years, and I consider it my second home country... Britix was a bad decision.... It will take time to show its damages, but there will be some to Britain economy.
Sorry to say that.
Sorry to say that.
sogdianrock · 61-69, M
SW-User
Italy is in a truly terrible mess... Not exactly a reliable source of opinion... By the way Italy also changed sides mid way through WW2
electropura · 31-35, M
sogdianrock · 61-69, M
hi electropura
I felt so and have no reason to change my mind.
here copied this to save repeating it!
[b]The two-year clock in Article 50 controls the entire negotiation: Any member of the 28-nation bloc that triggers it is automatically ejected from the EU with or without a deal after two years. It can only avoid the two-year deadline if it agrees to a humiliating reversal or obtains a highly unlikely extension to the negotiation period. (The law is currently unclear on whether Article 50 is irrevocable.)
The most important thing is that the EU has no interest in giving Britain a good deal. Quite the opposite: The EU is incentivised to demonstrate to other European countries that exiting EU leaves you in a worse position than staying inside it. So it is actually to the EU's advantage to not negotiate at all, and just let the UK flop out of the EU with no deal. "No deal" is the least advantageous position for Britain, because it comes with no formal access to the European market.
Once Article 50 is triggered, the EU can run out the two-year clock, until Britain is ejected in a "hard Brexit" without any of its demands or requests being met.[/b]
best wishes
:)
I felt so and have no reason to change my mind.
here copied this to save repeating it!
[b]The two-year clock in Article 50 controls the entire negotiation: Any member of the 28-nation bloc that triggers it is automatically ejected from the EU with or without a deal after two years. It can only avoid the two-year deadline if it agrees to a humiliating reversal or obtains a highly unlikely extension to the negotiation period. (The law is currently unclear on whether Article 50 is irrevocable.)
The most important thing is that the EU has no interest in giving Britain a good deal. Quite the opposite: The EU is incentivised to demonstrate to other European countries that exiting EU leaves you in a worse position than staying inside it. So it is actually to the EU's advantage to not negotiate at all, and just let the UK flop out of the EU with no deal. "No deal" is the least advantageous position for Britain, because it comes with no formal access to the European market.
Once Article 50 is triggered, the EU can run out the two-year clock, until Britain is ejected in a "hard Brexit" without any of its demands or requests being met.[/b]
best wishes
:)
OrElses · 51-55, M
Best decision we ever made, with or without a deal we're leaving, I couldn't give a f**k about the EU, its shit.