Lets be honest though, all the issues are slowly resolving, the yokes will be released steadily as we provide the real incentive the EU stalwarts want............our billions. They never wanted our input lets be realistic. The Irish issue will be resolved with another bribe, everything we want from the EU will be gained with bribes. The key points are controlling our borders now and the freedom to strike deals all over the world with whoever we like. I just hope that our Theresa is spreading these payments over a long period, mortgage fashion like, just to keep the countries cash flow in order. Your dream of stopping this Mart is contained now in a pipe and is puffing steadily away ! Human nature and greed from your masters at the EU is selling you down the river pal.
We will be paying over a period of time as our liabilities become due. I don’t think we will accept paying everything up front and if we put it in writing what we are going to pay for, then the EU will probably accept that. The EU are not gaining anything, they just want us to pay membership up until we go and cover liabilities. The same as if you pay a bank loan back. The bank hasn’t robbed you, you paid back what you had borrowed at the agreed terms. Normal.
As regards borders, I think a key point is not having a land border with ROI. The arguments for ease of transport for private people and, perhaps, more importantly, having no trade barriers are the same as for not having a hard border with France and Holland. Even fanatics like KoK don’t want a land border with ROI. The same leavers want a hard border with the EU though. Not thought through obviously. You cannot want one, but not the other. It is a contradiction.
It would be great if someone said, wtf, it‘s more complicated and damaging than we thought, let’s call it a day and get on with building a better stronger EU.
But, as we can see even on here, there are a lot of agendas fighting against a successful EU. Human nature in the form of being scared of foreigners and a tribal resentment against anything from outside, coupled with greed and ignorance is indeed selling the U.K. down the river. My solution for myself is German citizenship, assuming I pass the language and citizenship tests. Yours is hoping that after leaving the EU, the U.K. will do away with piffling human rights. Good luck with that, it ended in tears when Germany took that path in the 30s.
I was serious about you going to Nürnberg Dokumentation Zentrum. You said you liked travel, and I though you may reflect on some of your comments when you saw what happened when people actually did away with people of an oriental religion and piffling human rights. It started off fairly innocently and grew into a disaster.