06-26-2016, 01:34 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-26-2016, 01:40 PM by APeacefulWarrior.)
Well, I simply have a hard time believing Britain is going to be better off... Especially if the "United Kingdom" is reduced to little more than just England and Wales in the process. A large breakup is likely to greatly reduce London's status as a business and financial center, and if that reduction is bad enough, Britain risks basically becoming a backwater.
Norway has oil. Switzerland has the world's banks. What does England have, if London is no longer a magnet for commerce?
It's also a little worrisome just how willing you are to ignore the outright lies told by the Brexit side. If the issue was so clear-cut, and Britain has so much to gain from dropping out of the EU, why did they feel the need to promise the citizens all sorts of bonuses and benefits they had absolutely no intention whatsoever of honoring? Their open duplicity makes it hard to believe they actually had the nation's interests at heart, or that they really had a strong case to make. If they had, they would have been more honest.
It's easy to talk about abstract high-level economics, but in the meantime, areas like Cornwall have pretty much just gotten screwed for believing what the Brexit leaders claimed. (Unless the government finds tens of millions of Pounds they have no other use for.) Is THAT giving the elite a bloody nose?
Norway has oil. Switzerland has the world's banks. What does England have, if London is no longer a magnet for commerce?
It's also a little worrisome just how willing you are to ignore the outright lies told by the Brexit side. If the issue was so clear-cut, and Britain has so much to gain from dropping out of the EU, why did they feel the need to promise the citizens all sorts of bonuses and benefits they had absolutely no intention whatsoever of honoring? Their open duplicity makes it hard to believe they actually had the nation's interests at heart, or that they really had a strong case to make. If they had, they would have been more honest.
It's easy to talk about abstract high-level economics, but in the meantime, areas like Cornwall have pretty much just gotten screwed for believing what the Brexit leaders claimed. (Unless the government finds tens of millions of Pounds they have no other use for.) Is THAT giving the elite a bloody nose?