Brexit Bungle

[hollodero]

(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.

Yep. They want to leave, but keep all the good EU stuff regardless. It's not petty to tell them that's not how it works. Why should they have free access to our markets (also, financial markets) without contributing and without returning the courtesy? Why would the EU let their citizens settle freely all over Europe when they won't let other Europeans settle in their country? Etc. etc.

They want a one-way street, they wanted it while in the EU and ironically often even got it so they would stay. Now that they leave regardless, I'd rather not keep it that way. That's not petty, that's just the EU not being a charitable organization for first-world outsiders.