The Pub Analogy

[shaunbhoy]

You have been invited along to a piss-up with 26 other associates, many of whom you barely know.

As the evening progresses you realise that only a small handful of your group are actually going up to the bar whenever a round of drinks is needed.

Towards the end of the evening you decide that you will head off to a different pub as you are fed up subsidising so many of these strangers.

The other tiny group that have been putting their hands in their pockets desperately urge you to stay, particularly their drunken uncle Jean-Claude who has been coaxing some of the poorer attendees to order house-doubles.

You decide to leave anyway and live happily ever after. Soon after you leave the party breaks up and you receive a text from the others in the paying clique to meet up with them in a nicer pub.

The poorer ones get thrown out of the first pub for not paying for their drinks and angrily beat up Uncle J-C for ruining their evening.

The End

[shaunbhoy]

I see that none of the cabal of hysterical reactionary luddites have chosen to argue with this synopsis.

Nuff said methinks.

[Mordac]

They may be struggling with the concept of buying a round. In Remoaner world, such ideas are totally unnecessary...

[original PM]

They may be struggling with the concept of buying a round. In Remoaner world, such ideas are totally unnecessary...

Indeed in the remoaner world all beers are bought by 'someone else' and you do not have to pay anything.

[clearedforlanding]

You have been invited along to a piss-up with 26 other associates, many of whom you barely know.

As the evening progresses you realise that only a small handful of your group are actually going up to the bar whenever a round of drinks is needed.

Towards the end of the evening you decide that you will head off to a different pub as you are fed up subsidising so many of these strangers.

The other tiny group that have been putting their hands in their pockets desperately urge you to stay, particularly their drunken uncle Jean-Claude who has been coaxing some of the poorer attendees to order house-doubles.

You decide to leave anyway and live happily ever after. Soon after you leave the party breaks up and you receive a text from the others in the paying clique to meet up with them in a nicer pub.



The poorer ones get thrown out of the first pub for not paying for their drinks and angrily beat up Uncle J-C for ruining their evening.

The End

I don't agree with your politics, but admit that was a pretty cool analogy.

[Toastiness]

You have been invited along to a piss-up with 26 other associates, many of whom you barely know.

As the evening progresses you realise that only a small handful of your group are actually going up to the bar whenever a round of drinks is needed.

Towards the end of the evening you decide that you will head off to a different pub as you are fed up subsidising so many of these strangers.

You conveniently forgot that you were the one enthusiastically inviting all the strangers to the party a while back. Then you complain when they show up...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/t...ment-of-the-eu

[Mordac]

You conveniently forgot that you were the one enthusiastically inviting all the strangers to the party a while back. Then you complain when they show up...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/t...ment-of-the-eu

We didn't invite the assembled throng. Indeed, when we first expressed an interest in participating, the French President told us in no uncertain terms to piss off. We eventually got a belated invite once the ungrateful git had popped his *whatever the French term for clogs is*. I assume they were short of money at the time, and hadn't realised we were as skint as they were. Or they wanted our fish on the cheap.

[1manshow]

The problem with Brexit is, you are losing all/most of the benefits of being in Europe, without gaining fully the benefits of being outside of it. It is a marshmellowy soft Brexit at best. We will be intertwined with all sorts of regulations, laws and what not for decades to come.

If we were to become like before we joined EU, then I'd find it more palatable.

You'd have to change this analogy to mimic Brexit by making it that you weren't really able to leave the pub completely, with new pubs having various stipulations and still having commitments to the current one.

[Whorty]

I see that none of the cabal of hysterical reactionary luddites have chosen to argue with this synopsis.

Nuff said methinks.

It didn't warrant any comment as clearly this is your fantasy and not what will happen. We're not going hard Brexit (i.e. walking out the pub) but instead are asking to stay in the pub, and will continue to pay into the kitty, but without any future say on what drinks are bought - I hope you like sherry and advocaat?

[vetran]

The problem with Brexit is, you are losing all/most of the benefits of being in Europe, without gaining fully the benefits of being outside of it. It is a marshmellowy soft Brexit at best. We will be intertwined with all sorts of regulations, laws and what not for decades to come.

If we were to become like before we joined EU, then I'd find it more palatable.

You'd have to change this analogy to mimic Brexit by making it that you weren't really able to leave the pub completely, with new pubs having various stipulations and still having commitments to the current one.

we are off the off licence and being one of the top 4 contributors to the "hotel California" we can watch the pub close without us! Or wait for the Russians to take it over.

I think we are all hoping we can go back to how we were before we were lied to about the common market. Just imagine Drunker having his own Army.