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The EU Exit debate
Posted: 27 Mar 2016, 10:36
by Paul K
There's nothing like being informed so you can make the correct choice:
Retired US general and ex-CIA head says EU gets in the way of our security:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-e ... m-35898255
On the other hand...
Retired US general and ex-CIA head says EU is essential to our security:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... error.html
Thanks guys.
Re: The EU Exit debate
Posted: 27 Mar 2016, 10:47
by DaveG
That's my mind made up then.
Re: The EU Exit debate
Posted: 27 Mar 2016, 11:25
by Airspeed
I wonder why they're both retired.
Re: The EU Exit debate
Posted: 27 Mar 2016, 14:37
by Tomliner
Yep, that's my decision made as well!
EricT
Re: The EU Exit debate
Posted: 27 Mar 2016, 19:24
by Dev One
Brexit will certainly mess up us ex pats, & I can't see the EU welcoming Britain in its attempts to rejoin on its own terms.....Rattles thrown out of pram syndrome?
In any case it will take years to negotiate any new agreements & thats before it comes before the 'Human rights' brigade & legal beagles......
Keith
Re: The EU Exit debate
Posted: 27 Mar 2016, 19:45
by Vancouver
Make that certain ex-pats. If the UK leaves, then surely the Commonwealth will become more relevant. On the other hand, those who take a pension out of the UK (like me) will surely suffer a devalue in the Pound whichever way it goes. Money men panic at the merest hint of any change in anything including the weather, the loss/gain of an hour with DST, the clock tripping over the midnight hour.
I should mention I sympathise with Eu ex-pats too, my sister retired to Espana. And any exit will surely be catastrophic for her and others too. Healthcare vanishing, property prices having already collapsed, they will surely be trapped. And so it goes on.
Re: The EU Exit debate
Posted: 27 Mar 2016, 23:03
by Jon.M
Ex pats like me who've been out of the U.K. for more than 15 years don't get to vote either.
Jon
Re: The EU Exit debate
Posted: 28 Mar 2016, 09:59
by Vancouver
Jon.M wrote:Ex pats like me who've been out of the U.K. for more than 15 years don't get to vote either.
Jon
On the other hand, you do get to drink copious amounts of reasonably priced wine. Very jealous. Stupid thing is, I can still vote but having never held a UK passport (I'm Bi
hey ho) they don't easily let me back in the country. It causes all sorts of hilarity
whenever we go back. At EGKK and Port of Dover we always get pulled over, At EGLL there has never been any staff on duty to challenge entry.
Top security eh?
Re: The EU Exit debate
Posted: 28 Mar 2016, 17:09
by Dev One
Just had a silly thought.....
I believe Wales & Scotland are recognised as country's in their own right by the EU, wheras England is not....so how will England be able to negotiate anything, if Scotland & Wales decide to stay in the EU?
Keith
Re: The EU Exit debate
Posted: 05 Apr 2016, 18:42
by Fungus_the_Bogeyman
Dev One wrote:Just had a silly thought.....
I believe Wales & Scotland are recognised as country's in their own right by the EU, wheras England is not....so how will England be able to negotiate anything, if Scotland & Wales decide to stay in the EU?
Keith
That's easy we'd simply renegotiate as the UK i.e. The
UNTIED Kingdom. Where's the problem? Come June I shall be rectifying the big mistake I made back in the 70s when I voted to remain in.