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The influence of the EU on Britain.

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  • edited December 2018

    My situation may be different to CM's as my wife is Czech, so I can stay here and move around Schengen indefinitely while our marriage is alive, his wife as I recall is not an EU, so he has a lot more at risk here. On top of that it seems that I should be able to get Czech citizenship easily enough. When it comes to citizenship each country has its own rules.





    Yes, that's our case and her right to work and receive healthcare is also dependent on being married to an EU citizen. Plus we are currently waiting to be matched for adoption. So all in all Brexit really has the capacity to be completely life changing for us.
  • Then a vote of no confidence would be called and the government would fall
    That would require a number of Tories to vote to put their own jobs on the line in a GE, which won’t happen
  • How do they expect to get a mortgage in a financial crash?
    Read this on a forum recently. Some 20 something was saying they wanted a hard Brexit; house prices would fall 30% (Thanks Mr Carney....they won't btw) & they woukd pick up a bargain. It was explained to them that credit would tighten, bigger deposits would be needed & they may also be made redundant.

    But thats all project fear bollox anyway.
  • What are the chances of either the Tory ERG members or the Tory Remainers (or both) supporting a no-confidence vote in the government as this would probably lead to a general election. In that case Theresa May would have to resign (as she has promised not too stand at the next election) clearing the way for a new leader who is sympathetic to their cause.

    They would then of course have to win the ensuing election, but perhaps they see that as being more likely than getting what they want under May. For the ERG it is probably a once in a lifetime opportunity to get a hard Brexit.
  • My situation may be different to CM's as my wife is Czech, so I can stay here and move around Schengen indefinitely while our marriage is alive, his wife as I recall is not an EU, so he has a lot more at risk here. On top of that it seems that I should be able to get Czech citizenship easily enough. When it comes to citizenship each country has its own rules.






    To the Spanish she is an EU or from the EEUU!
  • What are the chances of either the Tory ERG members or the Tory Remainers (or both) supporting a no-confidence vote in the government as this would probably lead to a general election. In that case Theresa May would have to resign (as she has promised not too stand at the next election) clearing the way for a new leader who is sympathetic to their cause.

    They would then of course have to win the ensuing election, but perhaps they see that as being more likely than getting what they want under May. For the ERG it is probably a once in a lifetime opportunity to get a hard Brexit.

    I believe May said she wouldn't stand at the 2022 General Election.
  • In Vienna at the mo’, Austrians are pretty obsessed with the idea of Brexit - I’m unclear why.
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  • se9addick said:

    Correct. But the additional cost of €7 for no additional perceivable benefit is borderline theft.
    You mentioned the magic word "border" which Brexiteers cannot deal with. No deal means no Irish border, which means EU members of WTO will veto any trade deal we try to make until Boris invents X-ray CCTV cameras that csn identify any goods crossing the border without a trusted trader stamp.
  • You mentioned the magic word "border" which Brexiteers cannot deal with. No deal means no Irish border, which means EU members of WTO will veto any trade deal we try to make until Boris invents X-ray CCTV cameras that csn identify any goods crossing the border without a trusted trader stamp.
    Right, so let’s just revoke Article 50 now that we know we can.
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    se9addick said:

    Right, so let’s just revoke Article 50 now that we know we can.
    So, are you saying we are stuck in the EU for evermore, seeing as it's impossible to leave. Or perhaps we should just defer the date of leaving until either..

    1) Border issues can be sorted with this magic "eye in the sky" system.

    Or

    2) There is a united Ireland, so that NI is not part of the UK & there can be a border in the Irish Sea.

    Which will be handy as any Election from now on that I take part in, I will simply ignore the result. So when Labour get in , put up Income Tax by 20% I'll just not pay it as I won't recognise the decision taken by the electorate. Fair enough.
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    Again, to reinforce the point made earlier that May is incapable of interacting with any kind of intelligent life.
  • So, are you saying we are stuck in the EU for evermore, seeing as it's impossible to leave. Or perhaps we should just defer the date of leaving until either..

    1) Border issues can be sorted with this magic "eye in the sky" system.

    Or

    2) There is a united Ireland, so that NI is not part of the UK & there can be a border in the Irish Sea.

    Which will be handy as any Election from now on that I take part in, I will simply ignore the result. So when Labour get in , put up Income Tax by 20% I'll just not pay it as I won't recognise the decision taken by the electorate. Fair enough.
    2 - united Ireland (allowing NI to remain within the EU) & an independent Scotland within the EU, that’s what both of those home nations voted for and my understanding of Brexit logic suggests it would be entirely undemocratic to ignore the will of the people.

    England and Wales get to leave the EU without any Irish border complications and see out the death throes of an Empire that ceased to exist anywhere but the minds of right wingers 70 odd years ago.
  • se9addick said:

    2 - united Ireland (allowing NI to remain within the EU) & an independent Scotland within the EU, that’s what both of those home nations voted for and my understanding of Brexit logic suggests it would be entirely undemocratic to ignore the will of the people.

    England and Wales get to leave the EU without any Irish border complications and see out the death throes of an Empire that ceased to exist anywhere but the minds of right wingers 70 odd years ago.
    London voted Remain. So can London stay with Scotland in the EU please? And we can watch the provinces expire.
  • Fiiish said:

    Possible contender for CharltonLife's Didn't Happen Award for 2018? :wink:
    Button it. Thanks for that @PragueAddick the teachers cool, but since she's not a UK national and is rather miffed with it all maybe she brought the subject up (house prices) as I say it was in the news.
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  • This tweet is a nice riposte to whoever was making light of the cost of the new "visa"

    So it won't be £88. After we leave, it will be £888 as our currency goes to Zimbabwean level of value :)
  • Chizz said:

    London voted Remain. So can London stay with Scotland in the EU please? And we can watch the provinces expire.
    Absolutely, President Khan has a nice ring to it!
  • Chizz said:

    London voted Remain. So can London stay with Scotland in the EU please? And we can watch the provinces expire.
    Would I need a visa when going to The Valley, or do you reckon I could have dual nationality?
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    bobmunro said:

    Would I need a visa when going to The Valley, or do you reckon I could have dual nationality?
    You can have preferred economic migrant status
  • When God and his cronies were putting their plans for earth and civilisation together they used lots of house analogies.
  • Hope things work out for you @CharltonMadrid can't be easy. Hopefully the Spanish are sensible.
    Cheers mate. The uncertainty that Brexit is adding to our lives is worrying though people in Spain have been fantastic. This board has been a really useful, and generally supportive, source of information as well.
  • McBobbin said:

    Button it. Thanks for that @PragueAddick the teachers cool, but since she's not a UK national and is rather miffed with it all maybe she brought the subject up (house prices) as I say it was in the news.
    T'was just an interesting anecdote, and I think we are all on alert to whether or not the polls are accurate this time. The figure Heseltine quoted was 70% young people for Remain. So 100% for Hard Brexit really would be very odd. When I told my nephew why I was asking he pronouced "bollocks" and immediately suggested that it was all down to the teacher. But then my nephew is a Remain Ultra who doesn't so much take no prisoners as shoot on sight of dissent. I have a couple of times asked him if he isn't scretly posting on CL using the handle @Fiiish :smile:

  • Then just leave with no deal. The world won't fall apart & seeing as the EU27 & the UK will want to make it work then I'm sure it will.
    After leaving with no deal how would the UK manage the 310 mile land border with the EU?
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