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Thread #168430 Message #4082358
Posted By: robomatic
07-Dec-20 - 10:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
Watching an American Public Broadcasting television article about Brexit using the term "Hard Brexit" multiple times.
Some good comments from a British economist including the following cautions regarding Hard Brexit long term fallout:
a smaller England with essentially constricted borders
the Good Friday agreement threatened
diplomatic ill feelings between Europe and the U.K., uncertainty with U.S. relations.
A point that was new to me but probably not to many of you was that the Europeans have a need to not let the U.K. look like it got a great deal, because then further exits become more attractive. And I suppose that U.K. has an interest in keeping Scotland aboard while all this is happening as well.
And I believe many of you feel that Boris favors a Hard Brexit anyway.
Canada and Quebec take notice!