Brexit -am I stupid or what

It's good to have you on board @CanadianLori and your comments are very welcome as you speak from an onlookers point of view. Do you think your fellow Canadians opinions of Brexit are split very much like the British?

 

Not at all. I do not know anyone over here who has not thought that the relationship was outdated given the present migration and political climates being forced on all members without proper consideration for their consequences. If all was fair as far as financial issues were concerned perhaps the downside of the other burdens might be palatable but there is zero, in my mind, advantage for Britain being a member.

Parasitic money moving while enforcing oppressive policies could never be acceptable to me.

The British are a clever lot and are up to battling an economic war or anything else thrown their way. It is only the barbaric who use physical weapons to try to dominate.

And this is only an emotional reaction on my part, but the arrogance. Of all the unmitigated gall! Stick it I say.

Oh, and I DO like Boris' hair. Not a Donald vanity do, just a poke at himself. Found oit he's got a gal. Too bad, I might have applied for that position...

 

Nicola would be wise to wait - before going for another independence referendum and then possibly rejoining the EU. I think that she will change her mind when she sees the EU disintegrating. Plus she would have the sticky problem of an EU member state with a land border with a non EU member. A major issue for the EU when it came to Ireland - I wonder if the same arguments would apply if Scotland rejoin the EU?

Rejoining the EU is giving up independence.

 

Ahhh the 'Queen of Scots' or so she'd like to think
I cannot think for the life of me what she thinks she has to gain by all this wittering nonsense because Scotland a place I love I might add would be up the creek without a sodding paddle.

 

The Scots are not daft (you could say they are canny...) - they can see right through Nicola's plans. She needs to concentrate on local Scottish priorities - not wasting time talking about independence. As the UK we've just wasted over 3 years trying to get Brexit through - I hope the Scots don't now endure a further 3 years with Nicola droning on about independence

The heady days of North Sea oil contributing substantially to the UK coffers have gone.

I see that in the news today there is talk about Welsh independence - are these people deluded? We wouldn't stand a cats chance as an independent country - there's not enough people/industry here in Wales to consider independence.

We are stronger together as they say

 

The thing that I don't actually get about Scottish independence is that they are part of the United Kingdom, so why do they consider Westminster to be governing them, as I seem to think, off the top of my head they have about 49 MPs at Westminster.
That sounds to me to be a pretty good representation for a country of less than 6 million.

Yes, they are in the minority at Westminster, but they do have their own Parliament as does Wales and N. Ireland,(when it sorts itself out), England doesn't have its own Parliament.

I've always said if Scotland gets independence, then England should also,.

I wonder what would happen if they gave England a vote in the next Scottish independence referendum.

And it's always England that is the supposed oppressor, but that is about population and share of MPs, nothing more.

 

So just remind why are we leaving the EU?

 

Well I must admit the two arguments do seem similar.
Let Scotland go, if it wants to, I say.

But I still think we would be better out of the EU along with what it is, and is becoming.

 

People believe the bull more than the truth

I laff at people around here, they listen to all sorts of crap, they're to easy lead up the garden path