12-13-2018, 12:31 AM
(12-12-2018, 10:32 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: I'm curious about how you think the EU is being petty. Not that I disagree with them being petty, but given your post I feel like you may not understand that it is the British government that is dragging their feet on this. The issue is that they don't want to give up the benefits that come with EU membership. But there are requirements to those benefits, and those are what (in theory) the British people voted against with the Brexit vote.
If they don't reach a deal, then the UK is severed from the EU without one as of 29 March, 2019. Both parties can agree to a two-year extension, but I don't think the EU will agree to it.
I say the EU is being petty simply because before the vote I remember multiple someone's from the EU on multiple occasions say they were going to make it hard on Great Britain if the vote passed. Great Britain is trying to negotiate and it appears that the EU is doing just that.
Great Britain doesn't want to give up those benefits and the EU doesn't want to give any either. Both parties are being petty it seems and once the deadline comes, just sever those ties and move on.
Great Britain will then be free to open negotiations with the rest of the world and I'm thinking the United States will absorb Great Britains imports, increase exports to Great Britain and maybe even slow trade with the EU. Could you imagine what that could do to Ikea alone?
Song of Solomon 2:15
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
