Originally posted by pintohoo
"The only people wanting UK to stay are establishment puppets looking for a handout from UK taxpayers!!!"
I don't think that's true.
Being part of the EU has been problematic for probably all - including the one's who share a common currency -
there's good things and bad things --
personally - I really hope that Europe keeps going and gets it to work ------------ somehow
maybe the problems are insurmountable - I don't know - but, what I do know is that a world or an area without borders and commonality is a wonderful thing if you can make it work.
Travelling Europe and UK without having to cross borders is a dream - what a hell of a difference in comparison to having to stop - having to be across all sorts of different rules - having to change currencies
surely it has to be a thing to strive for?
It's an enormous feat to get entire nations to all pull in the same direction with different cultures, different languages, different currencies - almost different everything - but, if it can ever be done - what a feat.
maybe the Euro was a mistake? - maybe it might have worked without the single currency? - Maybe it wouldn't - Britain suggests it wouldn't work anyway - who knows - but, surely one doesn't throw the baby out with the bathwater
if it all falls over, I think it will be a very sad day
we shouldn't give up on some ideas because they didn't work 'so far' --------- keep talking, keep developing - some things are really worth keeping going for - if something isn't working - tinker - try and get it right.
Yes travelling Europe now is so much easier with EU in place, I have five different currencies from when I travelled Europe in 1992.
The poms didn't fully understood the implications of Brexit, they didn't have a plan in place and now they seem to be between a rock and a hard place.
IMO given the huge implications of Brexit it was not enough to have just a slim majority in favour, should be noted that the younger generation where by far more against brexit than the older generation yet the younger generation will be stuck with brexit long after the older generation have passed on