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The city of London has been going for hundreds of years. It thrived before the EU, it will thrive after.


You forget that we don't have a colonial empire anymore.


It existed long before empire.


No, they were trying to rope in even non eurozone member states.


Not to mention the UK won't be in the hook for part of the bailout. Sounds good to me.


For one thing it means that one person (e.g. Angela Merkel) doesn't get to unilaterally determine UKs immigration levels any longer.


Uk was one of the most powerful members of the EU before brexit and saying "one person (e.g. Angela Merkel) determine UKs immigration levels" is not correct.

UK is not part of the Schengen Agreement, like, Ireland they can decide if a particularity nationality need a visa, I have dual nationality and I can enter Ireland or Uk without a visa using one passport and need a visa using another.


Once the millions of migrants in Germany have the requisite EU papers they would be able to flood into the UK. Shengen is a complete red herring.


Asylum papers aren't citizenship, and do not give the rights a EU citizen has (I believe typically they don't allow to leave the country), so the UK can freely choose if it wants to let them in or not.


> I believe typically they don't allow to leave the country

They do:

> You can travel to the so-called Schengen states (Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania , Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Czech Republic, Hungary) without a visa, if you do not stay longer than three months and you do not work there. [0]

In the EU that's a moot point anyway as I haven't seen any border control in years. So at least travel-wise they're quite free to move.

[0] https://handbookgermany.de/en/rights-laws/asylum/blue-passpo...


"To travel to many of these countries, however, you must apply for a visa in advance."

you need a visa, is not free to move.


UK and other Member States always had the right to decide for themselves with regards to immigration (movement between Member States was the only thing the EU influenced, and that was not up to Merkel or any head of state)


Other countries found a way to oppose her without leaving the EU. There was a lot of bad press and name-calling back then, but they made their point.


Someone must have sold you a bridge then.


No.


being able to make trade deals outside the EU doesn't count then?


Sadly this isn't true. The changes required to make any significant difference would likely involve the end of capitalism as we know it, and thus they will never happen until a catastrophe occurs. You're living in a dreamworld if you think even something like the Paris accord is anywhere close. And climate change is just one small way in which we are ruining the world. Imagine what things will be like with 10 billion! Yet population control is taboo because fee fees. It's liberalism gone suicidal.


Until the elites change, why should we?


Because you want your to avoid your grandchildren starving to death in a famine or being killed in the water wars of 2075?


Northern latitudes will be less affected.


Hundreds of millions in the southern latitudes will (understandably) move north.


Oh, in that case don't worry about it.


Drinking cold drinks in winter makes you cough.


Interesting, do you have an explanation for this?


Not the parent, but cold temperatures in the face/throat increase mucus production to protect your membranes, and excess mucus in the respiratory system will need be coughed up.

Of course it varies greatly depending on the person, temperature, state of immune system, humidity, etc.

But it's just the opposite of hot tea helping you cough less.


I'm sick of people saying it is inevitable that Brexit will be a failure. Do you have a crystal ball?


Pretty tired also of deliberately provocatory trolls with no reading-comprehension skills. Please point out where I said brexit will be a failure, or GTFO.


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