Are you watching Farage!

  • cynar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A good chunk of the Brexit votes were protest votes. A lot more were misled, and didn’t do proper fact checking. Finally, a lot of people wanted a different (often impossible, or mutually incompatible) version of Brexit.

    Unfortunately, once the vote was done, it was used as an excuse by the extra rich. It let them dodge EU tax rules.

    At this point, one of the best things that can happen would be to go back to the EU, hat in hand. A lot of people now realise what Europe was actually doing, Vs the lies they were told. A nice big dose of humble pie, and a more reasonable deal, will help sort a lot of issues.

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      1 year ago

      I would be shocked if they were let in and could keep the £. I am curious if a vote to rejoin would be successful if adopting euro were to be a condition? Has there been any polling related to that?

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        1 year ago

        There are a few countries already in the EU who have no plans to adopt the Euro. I’m sure we could do the same.

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            1 year ago

            It may have changed recently, but my understanding of it is that you are expected to aim to join the Euro but there is no set timescale.

            The ECB summary seems to indicate that they would rather a country is in a stable, fit condition before adopting the Euro. (We probably have Greece circa 2008 to thank for that.)

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            You don’t understand correctly. There are a bunch of requirements which (were they not waived, which there’s a nonzero chance they might be) are little more than establishing aspirations - adopting the Euro is one of those.