Brexit ?

Oberon · 02-19-16, 10:48 AM

It's going to be a real political hot potato over here in the coming months, at the moment I'd say that the national mood is in favour of exit, but not by much, there's a lot of confusion and a lot of fear-mongering by both sides in regards to the subject.
A lot of the main emotion is over sovereignty, I think that being an island nation we've never taken very well to being told what to do by, well, pretty much anyone. When you add the Migrant Crisis and the EUs 'Rabbit in the headlights' solution in dealing with it, and the Eurozone crisis before that, there's not been a lot of positive publicity in European and British media regarding the EU, and it's the media that makes 9/10s of the decision.

Personally I think that we will be poorer off outside of the EU, especially economically, however there's a large part of me that is wondering whether the UK exiting now may well be a case of getting to the first lifeboats before the ship sinks. If the EU can't get a handle on the migrant crisis, with the EU parliament packed with Euro-sceptics, with Poland going far right and most of the Eastern European nations already there, with Greece on the verge of collapse from inability to handle the sheer number of migrants coming into it, and Italy not far behind. Spain cannot form a government, Germanys government is almost as popular as Adolf Hitlers, and France isn't quite sure what way to turn.
Perhaps building a firewall between us and Europe might be a better option for self-preservation, although if we do leave the EU and the EU does eventually collapse then European nations are going to have to realise that they are in the dustbin of history, and that their opinion means absolutely nothing on the world stage because as individual nations they have as much power as a mosquito compared to the elephants of Russia, China and America (even those elephants are on unicycles on a tightrope which is fraying badly).

It will be a sad sad day to see the EU fail, it was a great experiment, and the idea behind it was in my opinion, good. However you can't get rid of 2000 odd years of nationalism, and conflict so easily.

I just hope that NATO holds together as well.

02-19-16, 10:48 AM	#4
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	It's going to be a real political hot potato over here in the coming months, at the moment I'd say that the national mood is in favour of exit, but not by much, there's a lot of confusion and a lot of fear-mongering by both sides in regards to the subject. A lot of the main emotion is over sovereignty, I think that being an island nation we've never taken very well to being told what to do by, well, pretty much anyone. When you add the Migrant Crisis and the EUs 'Rabbit in the headlights' solution in dealing with it, and the Eurozone crisis before that, there's not been a lot of positive publicity in European and British media regarding the EU, and it's the media that makes 9/10s of the decision. Personally I think that we will be poorer off outside of the EU, especially economically, however there's a large part of me that is wondering whether the UK exiting now may well be a case of getting to the first lifeboats before the ship sinks. If the EU can't get a handle on the migrant crisis, with the EU parliament packed with Euro-sceptics, with Poland going far right and most of the Eastern European nations already there, with Greece on the verge of collapse from inability to handle the sheer number of migrants coming into it, and Italy not far behind. Spain cannot form a government, Germanys government is almost as popular as Adolf Hitlers, and France isn't quite sure what way to turn. Perhaps building a firewall between us and Europe might be a better option for self-preservation, although if we do leave the EU and the EU does eventually collapse then European nations are going to have to realise that they are in the dustbin of history, and that their opinion means absolutely nothing on the world stage because as individual nations they have as much power as a mosquito compared to the elephants of Russia, China and America (even those elephants are on unicycles on a tightrope which is fraying badly). It will be a sad sad day to see the EU fail, it was a great experiment, and the idea behind it was in my opinion, good. However you can't get rid of 2000 odd years of nationalism, and conflict so easily. I just hope that NATO holds together as well.