Scotland will have plenty of difficulty joining the EU, because Spain with its Catalans and France with its Corsicans do not want to open the can of worms that will undoubtedly follow if Scotland suceeds. I'm not an expert on Europe, but I doubt that the EU could really offer Scotland more than the UK could. Northern Ireland is basically a concrete welfare ghetto. Aside from a loss in pride, the British will survive just find without them. Britain survived two world wars, numerous conflicts with European powers, China, and most of the Third World. They survived the hard landing from losing direct control of most of their empire too. They are a resilient island that punches far above their weight on a global scale. Unlike the EU, they have been tried and tested. The EU is a lumbering bloated mess of a project, that is already splitting at the seams.Montegriffo wrote:Except Britain probably won't still exist. Scotland is looking more and more likely to gain independence and NI are making loud noises about joining the republic in order to stay in the EU.heydaralon wrote:
I love that in a few decades Britain will still exist, but the EU will be looked back upon with nostalgia the way Marxists pine for the USSR.
People act like Brexit is the end of civilization and that Britain is turning into some kind of hermit kingdom. There is more to the world than the EU. The British will still trade with the United States, the BRICS and the emerging global markets in Asia and Africa. When Brexit happened, everyone was saying that London's stock market would collapse. Ironically, the European markets did far worse. All that needs to happen is Le Penn or Grillo winning in France and Italy, and the toilet-alliance that is the EU can die the ignominius death that it deserves...
