I agree. The important work was done whilst the rock-bangers were distracted. Now it's time to give the rock-bangers a veto, which they'll use every time, and grunt in satisfaction every time they stick it to Da Man. That'll keep 'em placid.
And They're OUT! The UK leaves the EU.
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See, if you give them a veto, they'll veto pretty much everything new, but that's OK. They'll feel all empowered, and the structures that are in place will continue to manage things.
It's when you take away their heckler's veto that they get all hard-done-by and pissy.
They will suffer for a while, not being part of the EU trade agreement and no longer be at the conference tables will hurt them for sure. Times are bad in Europe, Germany's rapes fiasco, France and Belgium terrorist attacks has spooked people. I am not surprised by this vote. Now they need to take care of whatever problem exist inside their borders that would have created a demon such as Jihadi John. The US is now at that stage as well. If Trump shapes up a bit, he wins.
Pretty hard to 'change things from the inside' when your bosses are sitting in Brussels making up all the rules as they go, unanswerable to member nations for their decisions and with little or no recourse to them.
Go Sweden. Go France. Go, go, go.
Actually Tec, I can............every time I vote in a Federal or Provincial election.
no amount of fantastical post-referendum scaremongering is going to change anyone's sensible mind on this sage decision. it's been discussed ad nauseum. it's over. time for y'all to get over it as well.
go back to your homes or grab your shine boxes and get back in your holes.
have a toke, a gluten-free pizza, satiate on netflix or whatever gets you through the envy.
Britain will be just fine and we all know it. there is nothing any of you mouthbreathing knowledge sumps can do about it.
#thehappening
go back to your homes or grab your shine boxes and get back in your holes.
have a toke, a gluten-free pizza, satiate on netflix or whatever gets you through the envy.
Britain will be just fine and we all know it. there is nothing any of you mouthbreathing knowledge sumps can do about it.
#thehappening
We have this....
And THIS is provided!
Yes well, we here in Canada still use the good old paper and pencil thing ....................worked well for Justin..........didn't it.
A historic day for the United Kingdom.
Congratulations to making the first steps to reclaiming your sovereignty and democracy.
This will spread. Support for remaining in the European Union is evaporating in Italy, France, Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden.
Congratulations to making the first steps to reclaiming your sovereignty and democracy.
This will spread. Support for remaining in the European Union is evaporating in Italy, France, Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden.
Nation that took over world sick of being controlled by external power - The Beaverton - North America's Trusted Source of News
I dont really care either way but it should prove to be interesting.
I dont really care either way but it should prove to be interesting.
'Move to Canada' trends on Google after Brexit vote
By Ted Rath, Postmedia Network
First posted: Friday, June 24, 2016 02:12 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, June 24, 2016 02:39 PM EDT
Better hurry up, Brits. The anti-Trump migrants are already taking up all the good igloos. Once again, in the aftermath of the U.K.'s vote to leave the European Union, those who lost the vote appear to be seeking a common Plan B: move to Canada.
Data from Google Trends show a sharp spike in "move to Canada" searches coming from Britain -- 100 times more searches compared to 24 hours earlier.
"Moving to Canada, the only remotely sane place in the world as of now," tweeted one dissatisfied Brit after the 52% Leave vote.
The search was popular in Wales, followed by England and Scotland. Wales and Scotland voted overwhelmingly in favour of staying in the European Union.
The Canada search was a clear favourite, beating out British searches looking into other places to move, such as the United States or Australia, making the Great White North the No. 1 dream destination - once again - of political losers.
During the U.S. primaries, American Google searches for "move to Canada" hit record numbers, too, as Donald Trump opponents watched his popularity rise.
Riding that wave, Destination Cape Breton pitched the Nova Scotian island as a Trump-free paradise, and at least one dating site tried to hook up Trump-hating Yanks with like-minded Canucks.
Despite the threats, statistics suggest very little change in immigration numbers from Western countries whose citizens threaten to move here for political reasons.
'Move to Canada' trends on Google after Brexit vote | Canada | News | Toronto Su
By Ted Rath, Postmedia Network
First posted: Friday, June 24, 2016 02:12 PM EDT | Updated: Friday, June 24, 2016 02:39 PM EDT
Better hurry up, Brits. The anti-Trump migrants are already taking up all the good igloos. Once again, in the aftermath of the U.K.'s vote to leave the European Union, those who lost the vote appear to be seeking a common Plan B: move to Canada.
Data from Google Trends show a sharp spike in "move to Canada" searches coming from Britain -- 100 times more searches compared to 24 hours earlier.
"Moving to Canada, the only remotely sane place in the world as of now," tweeted one dissatisfied Brit after the 52% Leave vote.
The search was popular in Wales, followed by England and Scotland. Wales and Scotland voted overwhelmingly in favour of staying in the European Union.
The Canada search was a clear favourite, beating out British searches looking into other places to move, such as the United States or Australia, making the Great White North the No. 1 dream destination - once again - of political losers.
During the U.S. primaries, American Google searches for "move to Canada" hit record numbers, too, as Donald Trump opponents watched his popularity rise.
Riding that wave, Destination Cape Breton pitched the Nova Scotian island as a Trump-free paradise, and at least one dating site tried to hook up Trump-hating Yanks with like-minded Canucks.
Despite the threats, statistics suggest very little change in immigration numbers from Western countries whose citizens threaten to move here for political reasons.
'Move to Canada' trends on Google after Brexit vote | Canada | News | Toronto Su
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTMxfAkxfQ0
...and here is my greatest fear.. BREXIT doesn't just effect Britain or The UK.. if Scotland, and Ireland leave.. who is next???
Andrew Coyne: A successful Brexit could reignite moribund Quebec sovereignty movement
It may very well fuel flames of Sovereignty over here and break up Canada.
However today talking to folks at work, I found there are plenty who like Trump, but they are hoping Trump turns Canada into the 51st State.. I was was like WTF??
I think over the next few years we are going to witness History in many ways..
Apparenty, Juncker has said "This will not be an amicable divorce."
He's not very happy. He said some nasty and threatening things about Britain during the referendum campaign but, as so often when a Continental European dictator bullies the British, he has ended up being soundly defeated.
And Nigel Farage has stated that he wants 23rd June to be a British national holiday - Britain's Independence Day.
Sounds like a good idea to me.
Where's your evidence for this?
Do you realise that the First Minister (sort of like the equivalent of a US state governor) of Northern Ireland, Arlene Foster, is a LEAVE supporter? She's the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) which campaigned for Brexit and which is the largest party in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Oh FFS... I can't tell if this is serious or a joke. Is Britain that jealous of other places it once controlled for them having an Independence Day that it needs some fake day of its own to celebrate??
Don't read much of what's going on in your own spot of the world, do you? Thanks to all of this, not just Scotland is thinking of trying for its own version of "exit". Don't blame the Irish looking into the idea, either.
That's a pretty slim margin, in North America we refer to that as a deeply divided population. Seems like the baby boomers have set the course for the younger generation.
Ignoring the fact that Scotland seceding from the UK and then joining the EU is merely swapping rule from London for more undemocratic rule from Brussels, what will happen if the unlikely happens and Scotland secedes from the UK and then tries to join the EU?
Well, the EU may simply tell Scotland to get stuffed. There is no guarantee that the EU will want Scotland back in. And, even if it does, Scotland may have to wait many years before it is re-admitted.
Once, or if, it is re-admitted, it will, as one of the richest member states, be a net contributor to the EU budget -and such a thing may hit Scotland harder as a tiny "independent" (you can't be an independent, sovereign state within the EU) member state than it was as part of the huge UK economy, the fifth largest in the world.
Not only that, it will eventually have to join the euro at some point. At the moment, all EU member states, with the exception of Denmark and (the now outgoing UK), have to join the euro at some point, and the prospect of Scotland having to join the euro will go down like a bucket of cold sick to most Scots. In fact, should there be a new Scottish referendum, all the anti-independence campaigners would have to do would be to keep drumming it into the Scottish people that should they leave the UK and rejoin the EU then they MUST join the euro at some point. This will almost certainly persuade the Scots to vote NO to independence.
There were also polls done just before voting on Thursday which stated that Scots would still be more inclined to vote AGAINST independence even if they vote to remain in the EU but the UK as a whole votes to leave.
As for Northern Ireland, its own First Minister, Arlene Foster, is a LEAVE supporter and her DUP party are Brexiters.
Britain's better off out of the EU.
Coming generations will be living in a free, sovereign, more democratic state and won't be living in a country being dictated to by unelected foreign bureaucrats.