A complete disaster for the country, not to mention our partners and neighbours, as shown by the chaos in the markets and the plunging pound?
But forget the markets, in the medium term, who in their right mind is going to invest in the UK now with all this uncertainty that will last 2 years at a minimum?
Furthermore it has now become clear that the leaders of the Leave campaign are complete charlatans who have ridden a populist tiger and have no idea what to do next. They didn't expect to win just to curry some popularity with the great unwashed by pretending to be anti-establishment ( of course you can't get much more establishment than Boris). Their shocked faces on Friday said it all. None of them wants to be remembered as the person who fired the exit gun, because they know they will go down in history as the ones who dismantled Great Britain.
There is no positive outcome from this, even in the long run: it leaves the country diminished in every way: politically, economically, in size and influence. Scotland is now certain to leave. The rump state of England and Wales is viable enough but certainly not a world player - it'll almost certainly have to cede its seat on the UN Permanant Security Council group of 5 top dog nations. US presidents will have Germany top of their list of partners in Europe.
But at least the immigration issue will be solved - no one will want to come to an unfriendly, damp, island with a mediocre economy. That should please the people in the North England but its not going to get them jobs or improve their lives. Because there's not going to be some magical renaissance in manufacturing - look at the steel industry, no British companies are interested in that kind of metal bashing anymore. So the problem will remain - what do we do all the people who aren't intelligent enough for the knowledge industries - the ones who voted Brexit? Who are they going to blame when 5 years down the line nothing has changed?
But forget the markets, in the medium term, who in their right mind is going to invest in the UK now with all this uncertainty that will last 2 years at a minimum?
Furthermore it has now become clear that the leaders of the Leave campaign are complete charlatans who have ridden a populist tiger and have no idea what to do next. They didn't expect to win just to curry some popularity with the great unwashed by pretending to be anti-establishment ( of course you can't get much more establishment than Boris). Their shocked faces on Friday said it all. None of them wants to be remembered as the person who fired the exit gun, because they know they will go down in history as the ones who dismantled Great Britain.
There is no positive outcome from this, even in the long run: it leaves the country diminished in every way: politically, economically, in size and influence. Scotland is now certain to leave. The rump state of England and Wales is viable enough but certainly not a world player - it'll almost certainly have to cede its seat on the UN Permanant Security Council group of 5 top dog nations. US presidents will have Germany top of their list of partners in Europe.
But at least the immigration issue will be solved - no one will want to come to an unfriendly, damp, island with a mediocre economy. That should please the people in the North England but its not going to get them jobs or improve their lives. Because there's not going to be some magical renaissance in manufacturing - look at the steel industry, no British companies are interested in that kind of metal bashing anymore. So the problem will remain - what do we do all the people who aren't intelligent enough for the knowledge industries - the ones who voted Brexit? Who are they going to blame when 5 years down the line nothing has changed?
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