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Originally Posted by jimbuna
I agree....and I'd still like Britain to leave.
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Ideally, so would I, but if we left tomorrow our economy would just implode, we're too interlinked with it. What should be happening now, if we wanted to pull out of the EU in the future is a reinvestment in our primary and secondary industries, things like Farms, factories, mines, enough to make us as near as self-sufficient as possible so that the high tariffs don't wreck us...and even then it might not be enough since the City of London has played itself into a strong position within the EU markets and might not survive being extracted from them.
This may come about without our control, I expect, personally, that if the EU does fall, then France and Germany will set up a new EU with tighter controls. Whether we'll join that, or indeed even be invited to join that, is another matter entirely, and given the mistrust we've shown France and Germany, our reluctance to put forward into the Euro, the "We're in, we're out" attitude our government has had depending on what government is in power, means I don't think that they would invite us, just as they were reluctant to with the EU, which could freeze us out of European markets which will stifle our trade opportunities.
Then there's Eastern Europe which is a whole difference kettle of fish and may even set up its own version of the EU which works differently, and Russia will have its own version with some of the former Pact states which are still on good terms with it, Belarus for example.
It's all going to be a bit of a mess, so in one respect I can understand why so many governments are so desperate to keep the Euro afloat because if it collapses, then it's going to be a very turbulent ride for the whole world (including America), however continually propping the whole thing up may just be a case of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic...
