I Live In Europe

You live in Europe and will go on living in Europe. The EU is not Europe. It is just an institution. An institution that has harmed Europe a lot in my opinion.

I dont agree with the last comment. This time last week the news was announced. There were lots of knee jerk reactions from Britain and from the EU itself. These have now changed. Into a more sensible look at the way forward. The EU I think will change. David Cameron went to the EU to try to renegotiate the UK's relationship with the EU. They wouldn't listen. Now I think they will. To the UK and to the millions of others who might leave in other countries.
Barak Obama didnt help. He told us if we left we would go to the back of the queue for trade links with the US. Well people here dont like to be told what to do. Barak won Brexit loads of votes. If Barak had kept quiet we might still be in the EU. The vote was that close. So thanks Barak!

While the vote separates Britain from the European Union, it does not physically move it out of Europe. Britain was part of the Continent of Europe long before anyone dreamed up the idea of a united Europe, and it still is.

You are so right. We are neighbours. And we will trade. And if the barriers to trade are too high we will trade with someone else. So i dont worry that the value if the pound fell. Its a blip.

Cierzo, you are right, its why we dont want to think of ourselves as Europe. But we are lucky, i suppose, we have a sea that separates us physically as well as spiritually.

Actually I know that. Nato is very important to anyone who lives in the British Isles. It isnt political. It transcends local politics.

I don't agree to this viewpoint. If Britain was so sure then they would have hastened to exit EU after the referendum. They haven't yet. A d all the leaders who were vocal about brexit are chicken in out.
I think the effect of brexit on the economy will be high. How severe only time will tell.

@Blodyn: There's an old saying that high walls make for good neighbours - as Ciezo said, we remain Europeans just the same. Just an independent sovereign nation again with neighbours who need to trade with us just the same.

@Mahjack: NATO was established after WWII by sovereign nations to maintain peace in the Western world. By and large they have succeeded. The EU have nothing to do with that - and I urge you not to believe anyone who tells you that the UK will be less safe than it was when we no longer have to kowtow to grey men in Brussels.

I don't know but if I'm not mistaken, the EU was made so a ww3 doesn't happen. Now people in Scotland and Ireland want their independence too, just because they want to join EU.

It's gonna be fucked if they did.