Britain has been an independent and sovereign country all along.
To suggest otherwise is bullshit.
Ten years from now they will apply to join again.
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Britain has been an independent and sovereign country all along.
The last gasp of a defeated "progressive", sure they will Per, sure they will...
Strangelove wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 5:27 pmThe last gasp of a defeated "progressive", sure they will Per, sure they will...
No more obeying ze germans.
As jubilant Brexit supporters gather to celebrate the U.K.’s departure from the European Union, Scotland is digging in to its position as the last bastion of political resistance.
The EU’s royal blue flag with yellow stars will continue flying at the entrance of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. The legislature, dominated by the pro-independence Scottish National Party, voted again this week to try and force another referendum on breaking away from the rest of the U.K. and ultimately rejoining the continent’s single market.
https://time.com/5775128/scotland-eu-flag-brexit/“Brexit and everything that will flow from it is happening despite the will of the majority of the Scottish people,” Sturgeon told the parliament in Edinburgh earlier this week. “It is beyond doubt now that the only realistic way for Scotland to return to Europe is to become an independent country.”
The two European countries most likely to swing for sovereignty in the near future are Scotland and Northern Ireland.The Brown Wizard wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 5:57 pmStrangelove wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2020 5:27 pmThe last gasp of a defeated "progressive", sure they will Per, sure they will...
Hey Per maybe you guys can save your country next and Svexit your asses off that sinking ship!
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/09/ir ... on-brexit/Almost a century after partition carved two separate political entities out of Ireland, Brexit has revived the prospect of unification in a serious way. On Thursday, the British House of Commons passed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit withdrawal bill by 330 votes to 231—an outcome even many Protestant unionists don’t want—thereby putting the United Kingdom on course to leave the European Union on Jan. 31. As Irish nationalist politicians find themselves increasingly in the ascendancy in Northern Ireland, this sets the stage for a renewed debate on Irish unity.
The argument for unity is closely tied to the strong economic underpinnings that argue for it in the face of the Brexit threat. Northern Ireland has received more than 600 million pounds ($780 million) a year in funding from the EU aimed at supporting agricultural projects, economic growth, cultural development, and peace initiatives. The open border with the Republic of Ireland in the south facilitates annual exports worth 3.4 billion pounds ($4.4 billion), and some academics have argued that the elimination of economic barriers across Britain and Ireland helped support peace efforts in the 1990s.
The Northern Irish electorate, by and large, seemed to recognize these benefits, and despite the United Kingdom as a whole voting Leave in the June 2016 Brexit referendum, Northern Ireland voted Remain with a 55.8 percent majority.
Those results sparked immediate calls for a border poll—the mechanism by which voters in both Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic can vote through referendum to unify. Then-Northern Ireland deputy leader Martin McGuinness declared in the aftermath of the result that “the British government now has no democratic mandate to represent the views of the North” and “that there is a democratic imperative for a ‘border poll.’”