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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
I suspect Britain will leave, there'll be much animosity, the whole world will go into recession end of next year, stock markets will collapse since nobody's buying anything, folk will get laid-off worldwide and the E:U will either start kicking Ireland; Italy and the 'stragglers' out because they can't afford (either financially or politically) to keep propping them up; and at some point after that the E:U will collapse.
AndrewtheAlu · M
@Picklebobble2 I highly doubt the EU would kick anyone out tbh
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@AndrewtheAlu They'll have no choice if they want continued support at home.
There's already a huge stride to the right in many countries.
America isn't out to make friends and China is buying sovereign debt everywhere.
There's already a huge stride to the right in many countries.
America isn't out to make friends and China is buying sovereign debt everywhere.
AndrewtheAlu · M
@Picklebobble2 nah. Kicking countries out will cause way too many problems, as brexit has proved. No one can go through all this again. If Italy and Ireland are really that much of a problem, they’d just be fined or something or the others would create a new organisation that didn’t include them. But tbh I doubt they’re really that much of a problem that kicking them out would have any benefit at all. Keeping Ireland gives them influence over the uk even after we leave
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@AndrewtheAlu Yes. ONE country. But if the dodgy economies start going under one by one and the ECB can't stem the tide, they'll have no choice or it's going to bankrupt France and Germany to say nothing of the political suicide for the parties in charge at the time.