QuicheFontaine
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Some, but not that many tbh. Only 15% of Brits describe themselves as "European", and the UK is the EU country in which people are most likely to describe themselves as "nationality only" (source).
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Some, but not that many tbh. Only 15% of Brits describe themselves as "European", and the UK is the EU country in which people are most likely to describe themselves as "nationality only" (source).
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
It makes sense, we are the one separated by an ocean.
Definitely not saying that there's anything close to a majority, especially in the UK. Being an island nation helps form the perception that travelling to the continent is "going there" rather than merely being an extension of your own landmass.
But for those of us that feel European...
QuicheFontaine
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Definitely not saying that there's anything close to a majority, especially in the UK. Being an island nation helps form the perception that travelling to the continent is "going there" rather than merely being an extension of your own landmass.
But for those of us that feel European...
Haha, you and FlixFantatier should form a club
NekoFever
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Maybe in the future you'll have a "Breturn" referendum to join the federation.
Maybe in a generation. But even then it's highly unlikely we'd get back in with our current special status (no euro, rebate, etc). We'd have thrown it all away because baby boomers are having a midlife crisis and want it to be 1955 again.
Royal_Phalanx
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I feel European. I suspect a lot of young people have some kind of affinity to Europe and their EU citizenship being stripped from them by people who want to go back to the 1950s will cause some resentment there. And I can't wait a generation to rejoin the EU. Hopefully I can move to Germany or Sweden in the next few years and get citizenship there. If I manage it I'm never coming back.
surprised the number is even that high.
anonymous_abc
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Haha, you and FlixFantatier should form a club
I now live in California, I've transcended feeling European I am now a world citizen. xD
Don't tell May that. She'll burn all your passports.
I now live in California, I've transcended feeling European I am now a world citizen. xD
And replace them with better BLUE ones that wont burn!
Nah man remember "world citizens are really citizens of nowhere" *tory applause*
Currently trying to work out the logic of the man in the hospital bed next to my father, telling my mum in one breath how we'd have never been able to do any significant work to the local road system without EU grants in one breath, then saying he's glad he voted out in the next
Alx
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PdotMichael
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Yeah, it's called "de Gaulle was an autocratic dickhead".
He was but he was right with the UK and their views on Europe.
Royal_Phalanx
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Can't wait to get a REAL BRITISH BLUE * passport!
*now with less rights than before, have fun applying for work visas young people, but WE TUK R CUNTRY BAK FUK EUROPE
PJV3
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May is going down a storm with our current allies and friends in Europe.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/21/theresa-may-uk-centre-of-european-decision-making-until-brexit
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/21/theresa-may-uk-centre-of-european-decision-making-until-brexit
Audioboxer
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Tories: Hai guyz vote us back in, in a majority, so when we fuck up we don't need to be held accountable.
British public: Nae bother. Sign us up now.
PJV3
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The good time window will be very short when we finally start the Brexit nonsense in March. Prices rising might start chipping away at support for being cavalier and wreckless with the economy.
Frankfurter
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RedSparrows
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If there's one thing I am certain of, the Tories will still win. It's painful, but I think it's true. Quite apart from the weakness of the opposition, they're always, somehow, on the right side of history:
Vote Tories for economic stability! WIN. Vote Tories for idealism over economic stability. WIN!
PJV3
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I'm not exp much from Labour but I think the Libdems could bounce back enough in marginals to leave a weak Tory government.
That's only if things start going wrong, and she actually starts making decisions not just general statements about the future.
Im sure the EU will be expecting our full payments every year until we do leave though.
NekoFever
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I think the Lib Dems would pick up a few seats but it wouldn't be enough to cancel out the Tory gains/holds against Labour under Corbyn.
Yeah, I just hope the economic effects hit the high street fast enough while negotiations are happening, which should ground the Tories a little bit.
It's already begun with the likes of Tesco/Unilever, but they very quickly managed to come to an arrangement which unfortunately took the looming issue out of the public eye.
PJV3
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We can annoy European leaders for a couple of years, they can seriously fuck us up for longer.
She's not a great diplomat, but she should be better than that, the Boris appointment makes me wonder though.
Phantast2k
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French motherfucker, do you speak it?!
Exclusive: Parlez-vous Brexit? EU negotiator wants Brits to talk French | Reuters
Exclusive: Parlez-vous Brexit? EU negotiator wants Brits to talk French | Reuters
Frankfurter
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Sure, just like the UK expects to be in the single market and retain it's financial passport until it leaves. No one will give a shit about the UKs position in any negotiations that are expected to be completed after Brexit, though. Which is pretty obvious.
Surely not paying your debts will get you somewhere.
And breaching treaties will be great for future negotiations.
I'm sure this will be a very friendly negotiation.
I mean we could cut all bonds including single market or financial passport over the weekend if the UK doesn't want to pay anymore.
Would be an interesting market reaction on monday
anonymous_abc
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ha ha, or as we will say in future tres drole.
Halph n Halph
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It's perfectly acceptable to cut all bonds if we refuse to pay. Its also perfectly acceptable that while we continue to pay we have just as much say in decision making as every other member,regardless of our future relationship.
See, this is what happens. France already testing the waters for continental hegemony.
Soon they need to introduce Esperanto to keep all parties satisfied.
That seems unnecessarily petty from the EU tbh.
Camp Freddie
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Sounds a story from a source with an uncle that works for the commission and is an expert on French culture.
Pretty sure no-one in Europe wants French to be the actual lingua franca, except France.
I agree, but it's also pretty funny. That said, no one wants French to be the go-to language.
PJV3
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It isn't the EU If I'm reading it right, it's a personal request from a French member of the negotiation team. English stops being used officially when we actually leave.
Is this actually official? Because I can see that being a big problem. I kind of can't believe it.
anonymous_abc
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No it is perfectly reasonable to expect to be sidelinded when you tell the rest of the team you're on your way out.
Nonsense.
Also
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ard-eu-meeting-sees-little-progress-on-brexit
May having the best Brexit talks with Estonia and Romania the two secret powerhouses of the EU, the rest will quickly follow their lead. ;P
Where is this comic from? I've seen it so many times now...
PJV3
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I'm mistaken then, I understood that no country had English as an official language besides us registered at the EU, The Irish 'use' Gaelic etc.
It's time. Deutsch will be our language gut ja ja gut gut Sportanzugshersteller.
Let's just compromise and use Dutch.
France has had a bee in its bonnet over the decline in overseas French use for a while. I remember when Chirac walked out of an EU conference after they decided the official language for economics wouldn't be French any more
Compromise: Luxembourgish. They took one of the funniest German dialects and made it official.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Jfor9KJdE
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