The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #161445   Message #3836675
Posted By: Stu
04-Feb-17 - 08:51 AM
Thread Name: BS: We're off, barring an earthquake
Subject: RE: BS: We're off, barring an earthquake
"As part of the EU the UK is isolated from the rest of the world."

Oh give over. Do you understand anything about modern capitalism? The EU allows us to trade feely with other member countries (it's our biggest market, remember?) and by acting together as one gives us immense leverage when negotiating trade deals. As for being isolated, the EU provides 50% of ALL gobble development aid, helping poorer nations develop and progress.

Brexit has pissed all that away, and now we have to crawl up Trump's shitter to ingratiate ourselves with his capricious, amoral and unethical regime. This isn't an equal relationship and never will be. How undignified and pathetic does May look as she shills for Trump at the EU, making the UK look like what it now is; doomed to increasing irrelevancy on the world stage except as a poodle and apologist for the US. Again.