Reply to: Channel Tunnel to close after Brexit

[AtW]

Actually I would Vote yes to EEC and no to EU.

It's not a menu to choose from

[PurpleGorilla]

How do you know we wouldn't join? If we hadn't joined in the first place, Britain would now be a very different place. Perhaps we'd be like Turkey is now - desperate to join (but unwilling to meet the conditions)!

A better question (and more meaningful) would be - given what we know now, would we have joined the EU in 1973? Remainers would probably say "yes", exiters would say "no". And the reasons would be pretty much the same as are being given now for voting one way or the other.

Actually I would Vote yes to EEC and no to EU.

[NotAllThere]

How do you know we wouldn't join? If we hadn't joined in the first place, Britain would now be a very different place. Perhaps we'd be like Turkey is now - desperate to join (but unwilling to meet the conditions)!

A better question (and more meaningful) would be - given what we know now, would we have joined the EU in 1973? Remainers would probably say "yes", exiters would say "no". And the reasons would be pretty much the same as are being given now for voting one way or the other.

[vetran]

Thickos forever focusing on the short term and protectionism

nope its a perfectly reasonable relationship advice, would you marry / Date today knowing what you know now?

Normal people ask it all the time.

[scooterscot]

An excellent point.

Who would want us to join the EU now if we had never been in it?

Join now to help Turkey join in the next five years?
Pay to prop up the PIIGS?
Join now to open our borders without any legal right to barrier to anyone?
Join now to pay £350m a week of money we desperately need here?
Join to dismantle our own armed forces?

I don't think anyone sane would vote for that so why vote remain?

and (expat) s are the only people stoopid enough to want that as a future....

Thickos forever focusing on the short term and protectionism

[SantaClaus]

Demand for concrete to skyrocket as Brits plan to fill In Channel Tunnel

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[DimPrawn]

Our 1/2 of the Channel Tunnel to be sold to Chinese after Brexit

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[MrMarkyMark]

Channel Tunnel to be Blown Up by ISIS in the Event of Brexit

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[DimPrawn]

And if Britain were not as member of the EU, there is no way would join.

An excellent point.

Who would want us to join the EU now if we had never been in it?

Join now to help Turkey join in the next five years?
Pay to prop up the PIIGS?
Join now to open our borders without any legal right to barrier to anyone?
Join now to pay £350m a week of money we desperately need here?
Join to dismantle our own armed forces?

I don't think anyone sane would vote for that so why vote remain?

and (expat) s are the only people stoopid enough to want that as a future....

[DimPrawn]

No brexit tag? Is the brexit tag fairy drunk?

Brexit tag fairy had a hangover...

[BrilloPad]

Remain supporters find world doesn't end when they lose the vote

Britain in the EU is like a frog in water. Now the water is very warm but not quite boiling.

No-one would put in frog in water that hot. And if Britain were not as member of the EU, there is no way would join.

[NotAllThere]

Remain supporters find world doesn't end when they lose the vote

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[NotAllThere]

Brexit supporters promote conspiracy theories when they lose the vote

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[BrilloPad]

No brexit tag? Is the brexit tag fairy drunk?

[BrilloPad]

Continent cut off?