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How come there are no groups about Brexit?

Sharon · F
Brexiteers want to cut the UK off from the rest of the World.
Sharon · F
@NankerPhelge What do you mean? We couldn't split away before 1973 because we weren't members then. That was when we realised there were benefits to being part of a larger group so we joined up. It was much the same as when England formed a union with Scotland.

I think of myself as a Terran (of Earth) Human. Other think of themselves as European. You say you're British. Some others may say they're English. Yet others might prefer to think of themselves as Lancastrian. Some may prefer to be even more specific.

Once again, where does isolationism stop and why?
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
@Sharon I've already said what I think about this. Suffice to say I want the status quo to remain as it was when I was a child, and that applies to politics as much as it applies to everything else. I am not going to carry on discussing it because I'm getting tired of this discussion now and more interesting posts are beckoning. See you around. :)

Carry on Similarworlding!
MartinII · 70-79, M
@Sharon I think we probably will be in a stronger negotiating position than the EU, given that organisation’s appalling record at negotiating trade deals. We may be a tiny island, but we are still, if memory serves, the seventh largest economy in the world. And we have, or could have, political influence disproportionate to our size by virtue of our permanent membership of the Security Council.

So when, or perhaps if, we have left the EU I believe we will have potentially greater influence in the world than we have now, if of course our political leaders choose to exercise it. Obviously we will be a second-rank nation, not a world power, but so is the EU. More than that, the EU’s role in world affairs is largely a fiction. When something really important happens, something which the larger member states see as affecting their own national interests, they take matters into their own hands, leaving the EU to hold on to their coat-tails. See, among recent examples, Iran, Syria, Libya.

All that said, when I argue that we will have better relations with the rest of the world when we are outside the EU I am not thinking principally about influence, more about the kind of country we are and will be in the future. I think we will become more outward-looking, more internationalist, less isolationist. We will have better relations with the EU and its members, because they will not be bedevilled by arguments about what the EU should and shouldn’t do. And we will have better relations with many other countries because those relationships, economic and political, will be both more important and easier. I must admit, though, that I probably won’t live long enough to know whether I was right or not.

Sorry for rather lengthy reply!
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
Brexist? That's a new one on me. Lol :)
NankerPhelge · 61-69, M
@SoggedNapped Lol :)
MartinII · 70-79, M
@SoggedNapped No, The United Kingdom, of which Scotland is a part, decided to leave.
SoggedNapped · 31-35, M
@MartinII I thought Scotland decided to stay.. Learn something every day. Thanks for clearing that up.
TexChik · F
Brexit? Because Brits would rather whine about Trump .
SoggedNapped · 31-35, M
LOL.. why do you think? Brits wanna be left alone...
RosaDawn · 46-50, F
Because all the groups are from EP.

Its was not a topic at that time.
Burnley123 · 41-45, M
A lot of Americans on here. I have posted about Brexit but not got much response.
MartinII · 70-79, M
Too boring!

 
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