Britain should rejoin the EU...

[FamKa]

...but lie to the public and say they're not rejoining the EU. It would be entirely characteristic of the Tories to do that.

What do you have to lose? The pound sterling is already in the shitter, adopting the Euro would be an improvement. The UK has proven that leaving the Union will destroy your economy. Any other country thinking of exiting will reconsider.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

excuse me while i set up a popcorn stand...

 

[A380]

...but lie to the public and say they're not rejoining the EU. It would be entirely characteristic of the Tories to do that.

What do you have to lose? The pound sterling is already in the shitter, adopting the Euro would be an improvement. The UK has proven that leaving the Union will destroy your economy. Any other country thinking of exiting will reconsider.

But, but, the socialist utopia that Lexit is guaranteed to bring is just weeks away…

 

[David Clapson]

The EU won't allow it unless we manage a 10 year period with all of us united and begging to be let back in.

 

[The39thStep]

 

[8ball]

The EU won't allow it unless we manage a 10 year period with all of us united and begging to be let back in.

I don’t think they’ll want us to be massively united, but they’ll def want to extract something and will want terms designed to weaken us beyond talk of leaving again.

 

[WouldBe]

...but lie to the public and say they're not rejoining the EU. It would be entirely characteristic of the Tories to do that.

adopting the Euro would be an improvement.

Adopting the euro might be a give away.

 

[mojo pixy]

I'd rather join the USA at this point.

 

[Pickman's model]

...but lie to the public and say they're not rejoining the EU. It would be entirely characteristic of the Tories to do that.

What do you have to lose? The pound sterling is already in the shitter, adopting the Euro would be an improvement. The UK has proven that leaving the Union will destroy your economy. Any other country thinking of exiting will reconsider.

No they haven't

At most they've proved a Tory-led brexit is a bad idea. And we've got all the tories in Europe.

 

[Pickman's model]

...but lie to the public and say they're not rejoining the EU. It would be entirely characteristic of the Tories to do that.

What do you have to lose? The pound sterling is already in the shitter, adopting the Euro would be an improvement. The UK has proven that leaving the Union will destroy your economy. Any other country thinking of exiting will reconsider.

And if the pound really is in the shitter why is it doing to well?

 

[Raheem]

And if the pound really is in the shitter why is it doing to well?

You mean, surely, why has it crept slightly higher than its lowest point against the dollar for 40 years?

 

[Pickman's model]

You mean, surely, why has it crept slightly higher than its lowest point against the dollar for 40 years?

We all know what a currency in the shitter looks like. The Turkish lira before revaluation. The German mark after the first World war. The rouble in the early 90s etc etc. For me a currency in the shitter is one that's collapsing. And it shows little sign of that. As for your 40 years, it's not 1982 that saw the lowest point of the pound v dollar but 1985.

 

[Yossarian]

I'd rather join the USA at this point.

Republicans won't even accept statehood for Puerto Rico and Washington DC, I don't think they're going to roll out the welcome mat for 60 million relatively liberal Europeans whose representatives in Congress would demand things like stronger gun laws and a national health service.

Joining Canada might be a more plausible option - and would probably give Britain a better trade deal with the EU than it has now - but the official English/French bilingualism could be a dealbreaker.

 

[bcuster]

I'd rather join the USA at this point.

That would be a great idea! Either that or we (re) join the UK...

 

[Yossarian]

Maybe Japan could use another island? They have bullet trains...

The king would probably have to resign or, ideally, fight the emperor in a duel to the death.

 

[spring-peeper]

Republicans won't even accept statehood for Puerto Rico and Washington DC, I don't think they're going to roll out the welcome mat for 60 million relatively liberal Europeans whose representatives in Congress would demand things like stronger gun laws and a national health service.

Joining Canada might be a more plausible option - and would probably give Britain a better trade deal with the EU than it has now - but the official English/French bilingualism could be a dealbreaker.

Why would the bilingual thing be a problem?

 

[Supine]

This thread will annoy the brexiteers on this forum. Both of them!

 

[Gromit]

I'd rather join the USA at this point.

Rather than rejoin we should demand they restart paying their rightful taxes to the king (back taxes included). That would offset our Brexit loses.

 

[Fuzzy]

Why would the bilingual thing be a problem?

to get a residency visa in Canada you need to demonstrate a degree of competency in speaking French.

 

[Gromit]

to get a residency visa in Canada you need to demonstrate a degree of competency in speaking French.

No you don't.

For Quebec you might but Quebec isn't the whole of Canada. It has other states and other states will have different requirements.
For example Manitoba requires that you can Yodel.

 

[Yossarian]

to get a residency visa in Canada you need to demonstrate a degree of competency in speaking French.

Also a large proportion of the civil service is required to be bilingual and all information on food labels etc. has to be in both languages, which would probably cause enormous amounts of grumbling. "My great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather's grandfather fought in the Hundred Years' War to avoid having everything in French," etc.

 

[bimble]

Maybe one of our ex colonies will take pity and allow us to rejoin them instead. Ideally Vanuatu.

 

[Pickman's model]

This is a job for our former colonial power, italy

 

[kebabking]

This is a job for our former colonial power, italy

Denmark. Copenhagen is so much nicer than Rome.

 

[cupid_stunt]

The way things are going even Sealand wouldn't want us.

 

[Pickman's model]

Denmark. Copenhagen is so much nicer than Rome.

What about Holland?

 

[kebabking]

What about Holland?

Too close to the French.

 

[Serge Forward]

No you don't.

For Quebec you might but Quebec isn't the whole of Canada. It has other states and other states will have different requirements.
For example Manitoba requires that you can Yodel.

In Alberta you have to pass the Howdy-Pardner-Yahoo Test.

 

[alex_]

...but lie to the public and say they're not rejoining the EU. It would be entirely characteristic of the Tories to do that.

What do you have to lose? The pound sterling is already in the shitter, adopting the Euro would be an improvement. The UK has proven that leaving the Union will destroy your economy. Any other country thinking of exiting will reconsider.

In ten years this will look like a very prescient post

 

[Serge Forward]

We should join Oceania or Eastasia... but not Eurasia, obviously.