Cape Blue

A little Island that is:

6th Largest world economy.

6th largest military expenditure globally

2nd largest foreign aid donor in the world

2nd in the last Olympics after USA

2nd in the last paralympics after China

Whilst we clearly aren't the power of the USA, to try and suggest we are a minnow is disingenuous.

amideislas

Everything's relative. A minnow compared to the big players. China, US, EU...

At least 20% of Britain's economic strength (that's probably being kind) is a result of its status as the global gateway to the world's largest economy (or 2nd largest, depending on how you measure it, it's pretty close). But Britain has tossed all that in favour of the ideological, so it's perfectly plausible that it will fall out of the G7 rather quickly post-brexit.

Without the power and prominence of the world's largest market, Britain represents a pretty modest economy, one that has few natural resources and produces little, so there's not much chance of growth, politically or economically..

Strip off the hubris, and at the end of the day, it is after all, just an island off the coast of Europe.

DaveLovesDee

Did you also notice the parts where the UK was the one pushing for most of the things it's now complaining about.

That American understands irony, it seems........

No, the U.S. would never go for the idea that someone legally resident in one state could go and live and work in another member state, or be able to ship goods across any part of the 50 states (Free movement).

The U.S. would also never entertain the idea of starting off with a small number of states then adding to them through the years, bringing new members to the same standards as those already in the Union.

And of course, the U.S. would never consider having an overall government who manages national regulations while states make regulations that apply to their own residents.

Scamp

He's the taker.

Sadly not yet but she may as well be after 7+ years, might propose this year though.

Assanah

Yes, weird that someone would point to a United States as a organisations that would never dream of uniting states 😂

Red Eric

Would you consider it to be a house of cards? Or showing signs of sinking slowly beneath the waves? Populated by lemmings?

Is it on the way, do you think, to becoming a crock of shite?

Red Eric

He's an arse, that's for sure.

EMR

Now we know ,it's not about the future prosperity of the UK and its people's but how we do in the Olympics.

Cape Blue

No, the US would never agree to tie-up with Canada, Mexico, Guatemala etc with free movement of people and supra-national law courts etc.

Cape Blue

Grow-up, I didn't say anything of the sort, merely pointed-out the folly of the "small island, can't survive on its own" meme.

EMR

Of course we will survive if thats all you want,if that's your priority.
I want more for the UK than just survival..

Bipat

Yes you are correct, however so many people want to come and live there from Europe and elsewhere that it might sink under the weight!

(Parts of the Eastern coast are already falling into the sea!)

EMR

A brexiter now claims we are tipping sideways into the sea because of over population .We should immediately stop All immigration from anywhere before we all fall off the White cliffs.
I am surprised the brexit campaign did not realise what an 'effective 'poster that would have made.😂😂😂😂

Bipat

It was a joke in answer to the 'just a small island' remark.
However -if it is so insignificant why do so many want to come to Britain?

Cape Blue

Prior to the referendum one could see that there was no reasoning with the swivel-eyed-loon extreme brexiters, they were so biased in their weird anti-EU outlook one could never have a sensible discussion with them.

Since then this has switched to the swivel-eyed-loon extreme remainer.