Maybe a "no" vote will lead to such a scenario? "Yes" will be taken to mean business as usual.
Have you missed the whole "living on an island" thing then?
Exactly my position. Think the worse result - and a very possible one - is a narrow
victory to stay in, which leaves a government with a huge rump of its party disaffected attempting to change things but facing massive resistance from both sides. Pretty much like the last 30 years then
No, you doofus, a no vote will mean we leave Europe
I'm all for weaning ourself off of the current debt/financial services-based economic model but this would hit the current model really hard without coming up with any sort of viable alternative first.
It's essentially the same as sacking your manager without knowing who to replace them with.
That's Germans for you; it actually makes sense to them.
Understandably, I suppose.
Silly analogy. That happens all the time and football is fine.
No, i think the worse result is pretty much any out one
As I say, I'm far from that guy who bases every political decision on stockmarket values but this would be catastrophic for british business, for the pound and for our place in the world. It's a real shortcut to diminishing our influence in terms of soft and hard power the world over.
As we're negotiating from a position of exclusionist weakness, not to mention have virtually no manufacturing base, every trade deal will be a ******* to negotiate and we'll spend a generation in the wilderness, added to the one that's already spent the last ten years here. We'll see a massive brain drain and jobs will fly out of the country to other places almost immediately.
We've got a ridiculously good position, lets recognise that.
I don't miss it at all - pain in the arse getting anywhere
I dont really have an islander mentality though, too many do
We should be looking at a hanseatic model here.
That's the point; you don't need to because .. you live on an island