It's true that most of the globe hates us, especially our European neighbours. So why would we wish to remain in a political union with and allow free movement to our enemies?
And who are the "British true friends" nowadays? China? India? Qatar? You love Globalism and Britain is the biggest proponent of Globalism, in the world. You are in fact, the Global Parasite, bigger than USA, China, EU or Russia themselves and only breakup of UK, can stop it.
Comparing French colonialism I can say it was the least horrible, especially in comparison to British, German or Russian one. That's also a reason why like you said "most of the globe hates us".
USA is not a British ally, anymore, since USA has different interests than post-Brexit UK. USA under Trump prefers economic protectionism, especially in case of trade. UK wants to strike indefinite numbers of "free trade deals". I wonder, if UK is going to sign an FTA agreement with Antarctica.
Trump has shown, at the beginning what is his attitude to FTA's, especially the multi-national ones, like TPP. What's interesting, in case of TTIP, situation might be different. TTIP is not a free tradel deal, but rather an political-economic agreement, between USA and EU. The first step to turning NATO alliance into political-economic and military one. With my whole negative attitude to EU and NATO, I can understand such a direction. For both, USA and Europe, it is China which is the biggest threat. And what UK does? It starts trading with China, it sends trains from London to China, it wants to participate in Chinese, anti-Western initiatives: Asian Investment Bank and One Belt-One Road project
Brexit UK is the Troyan Horse of China. An enemy of USA.
Hahaha, what does it mean? UK is full of Blacks, Indians, Pakistanis who are "British citizens" and is widely racially mixed, unlike Poland. Britain is "racially" lost from at least 60 years.
British are first and foremost citizens of the United Kingdom. Just like, Poles are citizens of the Republic of Poland. Only secondly, they are the citizens of EU. They made very clear choice, saying "we do not need to be EU citizens, to be 100% Europeans". Just like myself, who considers being a 100% European, yet, completely anti-EU. Just like Russians, Ukrainians, Belorussians, Norwegians, Swiss people and other European Nations. Of course, in case of Britons, just like in case of Russians, problem lies where European civilization and European continent, end.
I consider Britons as equally European as Russians or in many ways, Turks. British are maybe too much focused, still on their old Empire, but it is only the problem of the old people and some minorities. Majority of younger Britons prefer EU than Commonwealth, yet, they accept the result of the referendum. It makes the situation, very clear. UK will leave EU, but will stay in close relations with EU, probably being a member of the European Economic Area or maybe partially, through Switzerland-like, UK-EU deals. For me, it is the best scenario, possible. I strongly want my country to take this way, too. Other countries, like Ukraine, Turkey, Belarus, maybe Russia should also follow this way.
I do not need EU to anything, yet I want my country to cooperate closely with European countries, also these in EU and EEA.
Not an Anglophile, I take it?
Britain is divided, but that division comes from our ruling elite who have distanced themselves and conspired against the working class. And the anti-British traitors are those who sought to remain in the EU wholly to continue lining their pockets without any regard to their fellow countrymen.
England and Scotland, Ireland are separate Nations and I do see any argument for preserving the Union. Polish-Lithuanian Union which was formed earlier than the British Union, collapsed and none wants to restore it with some minor exceptions. Relations with Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania are pretty the same as these between England and Ireland, intoxicated. That's why I fully support the divorce.
I am an Anglo-phobe, but I am not against Brits and definitely not against USA and rest of Anglo-Saxons. I even prefer Anglo-Saxons than continental Western Europe and definitely than Germans. Yet, I am able to evaluate and to understand the British problem. British simply do not know, whom they are, today. British Empire is a history and UK is on the brink of break up. People who supported Brexit, in many ways are old people, who still believe, that UK is a unitary Nation-state. It is not, it is a very loose British Union of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The fact, that 2 members of the British Union voted Leave and 2 others voted Remain it is a problem. English, who still believe in UK are simply too arrogant, to accept that their place is next to Scots and Irish from the North. Their lack of respect towards Scotland and Norther Ireland is a problem.
Yet, many of English, understand this problem and they support Soft Brexit, suitable for every part of the British Union. I am not against UK, but only against English arrogance. It reminds me arrogant old Germans, who say some gibberish about "East Germany, occupied by Poland".
Generally speaking, British are right of leaving EU, but it is the "old England" which has the problem with acceptance of the facts.
Post-British, England will definitely be better off, trust me.
Brexit is not an end, but the beginning. Beginning of the end of so called "Great Britain". In 30 years, there will be no Great Britain, I have no doubts about it. British people choose division, sadly.
So, pay more respect to this tiny, but enormously important country. If you are able to stop your arrogant, British-Unionist behaviour, better do it. Know your place!
Let's face it, Britain is going to break up, sooner or later, no matter what British Unionists in their pathetic nostalgia, believe. This is the most "practical" effect of Brexit.
Question is: Do you and other supporters of Brexit, accept this outcome. Scotland as an independent country and Unification of Ireland? If not, then you are living in some distant galaxy, just like these who believe in "reversion of Brexit". I support both issues from the very beginning and I see, that everything goes in the positive direction.
Brexit and breakup of UK are the facts! End of discussion.
Leavers voted out because they didn't wish to have their laws and institutions superceded by foreign powers, to have hordes of jobseekers and criminals descend upon us due to the utterly inflexible freedom of movement right, and ultimately to have our country annexed and dragged into a European melting pot.
Well said. Brexit marks the very end of EU. Without UK, so called "European project" doesn't make a sense. Most of proponents of EU, do not understand, why UK is leaving. I know the main cause "refugees welcome" in 2015. If there had been no, such disastrous, pro-immigration policies in Western Europe, adopted by Western European government, especially UK, if there had been no multi-culturalist policies, there would have been no anti-immigration sentiment in countries, like UK or Netherlands.
Typical Pole--everything's about money. See? I can generalise too.
You're right, about "money, money, money" attitude. Poles "love EU money", although they do not know, that it has nothing to do with "EU help", but a normal sell-buy arrangement. Germany/France/UK/rest of EU gives us money and awaits profits. Majority of retail in big cities is in German/French/British hands. I have only 2 Polish supermarkets in my neighbourhood, but around 10 foreign ones. Feel it?
This "EU money" is a price for complete colonization of Poland, by EU business. Norway, Switzerland, Iceland also pay for the Access to the Polish market and Poland also uses this money. Neither Norwegians nor Swiss, complain about "lack of democracy" in Poland or neither of both, want Poland to accept the illegal immigrants. If Britain leaves EU but remains in the Single Market, Poland will also receive the funds from them. I wonder, if London will be interested in lecturing Poland in such themes like justice system, immigration or "human rights". Unlike EU, Britain, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland are very pragmatic and they know how the business looks. They help us financially, but they are first on the queue to our big, 40 million market.
I have never been against economic integration of Europe.
European Economic Area is enough, we do not need anything more.
Actually, the welfare state was set up after WWII in order to provide decent housing and healthcare to the working classes, as well as unemployment insurance and pensions. It has morphed into a different beast however and now exists as a form of state control.
Do you know, why it look this way? Just look on France and its ultra-bureauctratic model of state. France and bureaucracy literally name the same. I hate French, because of their pro-Socialist and pro-State paranoias. I do hate also English for their Liberal and pro-Invividualist mentality, as well.
A predictable consequence of opening your borders up to freeloaders. Rest assured, the invaders will continue to receive generous state handouts; the indigenous may have to work extra hours down at the labour camp or communal farm to make up for it though . . .
UK, Germany and Italy, France, Holland, whole Western Europe is going in the same exactly same direction. Sooner or later, EU imbeciles understand, that immigration is the main cause of Brexit and oncoming Italexit (in the Eurozone withdrawal, meaning), better for themselves.
Yes, immigration mixed with multi-culturalism are the main cause of collapse of the "European project", what's more they are the main cause for the collapse of Europe, as a whole. Get rid of immigration, get rid of multi-culturalism, restore European Culture and European Identity, then we can restart the "European integration" project. We must close our borders for the immigration, coming to Europe, from Africa and Asia.
Only now, I read, that someone wants to steal the money from Europeans, once more. Theory, that this scheme should be financed from higher taxes is a complete absurd. What is this "European VAT", then? New tax! Just like the European Social Fund, it is nothing more than a waste of private money. European Social Fund should be completely scrapped and the whole fund, should finance, this payout. Let's count, 200 euro times a 200 hundred millions, equates 40 billions. So, we need aproximately 50 billion euro for this, every year. European Social Fund is too little to fund that. So, we must cut the spending from other fields. At best, we should fund it from CAP, which is completely ineffective and unjust. Rich, big farmers, many big agrobusinesses, get dozens of millions of euro per each.
So, money exists, in the EU budget and there is no need to steal money from EU citizens. European countries are already too Socialist and majority of them, should start cutting their taxes and public spending.
So, if we really want to help people in need, we must find the money, where it is. Instead of taking the cash from the pockets of the poorest, what is typical for people with Socialist mentality.
Both the Right and the Left support open borders: the Right in order to gain cheap labour and to create new markets; the Left for diversity, humanitarian, and anti-racist reasons.
Very logical claim. The term Populism means nothing more than People's system. If we risk a comparison between leftist Democrats and rightist Populist and ask ordinary people, on the street, whom they would like to see, in power, majority would choose Populists. Why? Because Left, in general, has nothing to offer, these days. In the Globalization times, Left stands on the same side as Liberals, they both support Globalism. Everyone who support massive immigration, supports Global Capitalism. Someone said, I do not remember, who, that "immigrants are reservoir of the Global Capital". Who supports massive immigration of Ukrainians to Poland? Ordinary people? No, Capitalists and contemporary, pro-Ukrainian, anti-Russian government. Majority of people, in Poland oppose, immigration, they would like see, Polish emigrants to return.
Explain to me what Britain owed the Poles--a people we have no historical or cultural links to who are not are historical allies--or the French(!), a people who have utterly detested us for centuries, or the Belgians, Dutch, Norwegians, et al.? We should've accepted Hitler's peace offer and be done with it rather than lose a single British soldier in order to 'liberate' the continent.
I should remind you that Britain signed an Anglo-Polish military alliance, this included undertakings of assistance against any aggression from a foreign country, especially for mutual assistance in case of military invasion from Germany, as specified in the protocol...which the British didn't respected anyway...But, Poles stupidly fought for Britain and helped them a lot in terms of military intelligence.
ARTICLE I.
Should one of the Contracting Parties become engaged in hostilities with a European Power in consequence of aggression by the latter against that Contracting Party, the other Contracting Party will at once give the Contracting Party engaged in hostilities all the support and assistance in its power.
I've just remembered that we think about so called "West", especially Western Europe which, I almost forgot, think only about itself. I've just forgotten that French and British "helped" Poles in the same way in 1939, Czechs year earlier, selling ally to the enemy. Churchill in 1939 said very clever thing – Britain had to choose peace or war, it chose peace, but it will get the war, nonetheless.
The same rubbish, told the British and the French in 1938 and 1939. In 1940, however, they had to change the attitude and way of thinking. Too late.
Bizarre, you support the breakup of the UK and the national independence of its peoples but you're claiming Brexit is bad for us?
I wrote many times, my opinion about UK-EU relations. BOTH SIDES ARE TO BLAME!
EU is to blame for obvious reasons. But UK is to blame for other reasons. UK has never been a part of Europe, at least, not since its creation in early 18th Century. So, British Euroscepticism is something completely different than Scottish Euroscepcism or French one. And British will be to blame for the looming social-economic catastrophy in case of "no-deal"scenario. Definitely not EU. I wrote, very clearly, what should UK do – it should stay in the Single Market and in the Customs Union, at least for 5 years after 2019. To deliver smooth, pragmatic transition. Only people, who are ignorants and who do not understand how Global Capitalism works, may say otherwise.
In the end, UK-EU relations (or English-EU) relations should look like these, between Switzerland and EU. Scottish-EU relations should look like these between Norway/Iceland and EU.
I still believe, that leaving Single Market is a mistake, because it will harm many sectors of British economy, not only financial sector, which is a good news, but first and foremost "my sector" of Food and Drink.
What's the most interesting is the U-turn of Michael Gove, Agriculture secretary who speaks about allowing workers from EU (and not only) to work freely. It is possible, that UK may stay within the Single Market for some time, through EEA or partially, through Swiss model. Leaving Single Market has no sense.
As of today, hard Brexit is the most plausible outcome and it will mean, recession, that's for sure. If one year, after EU referendum, UK economy slows to nil, despite having very good prospects, before the EU referendum, situation is pretty bad. British economy is based on domestic consumption and import of goods. This import is being balanced by an export of services. We may only imagine, what will be the effect of accidental leave of the Single Market. Import will become much more costly, due to return of tariff and non-tariff barriers. Import from EU, may be costlier of about 40-50% in case WTO model. In case of 0% tariff scheme it it may be about 25% costlier (due to non-tariff briers, return of the customs clearance). Services sector will loose the access to the Single Market, rising their overall operating cost, sharply.
So, recession is inevitable, it may not be as deep as in 2008-2009 but it may last for long. Generally speaking, part of the "Project Fear" might become a reality. Good sign for supporters of UK integrity.
I want to remind, that about 45 % of food, consumed in Britain is imported, mostly from EU. About 70% of consumer goods, sold in Britain are of non-UK origin. Britain and especially England is too little to make its own furniture and many other product, made for domestic purposes. What about apparel?
I wrote, that for me personally, Brexit is a great thing, because Britain is a net importer of food and it must import it, from the close distances. You cannot import perishable goods from Africa, Asia or Americans. It's nonsense. So, even if WTO tariffs were imposed and the whole customs clearance restored, British consumers will be made to pay. Even 100 GBP for a strawberry small basket, if necessary. I monitor the situation and still think about starting a "Brexit business". I'd like to see other - exists as well. If EU were up to be dissolved as a whole, it would a paradise.
So, let the Very Hard Brexit, begins. The worse for the British, the better for me!
On the other side, Brexit is creating so many opportunities, that very few are going to complain in the coming years. For example, eastern Poland, which is the main source of fruits in the country, should embrace Brexit fully and start signing contracts with British retail chains. Since there will not be "British fruits" anymore and a lot of British farmers are going to relocate their production to other countries.
That's all I have to say.
Fascism is the only proven defence against an international conspiracy of this magnitude.
Sorry, but I've never considered myself as a Fascist and I've always considered myself as an anti-Imperialist. Nationalism is an anti-thesis for Imperialism and Colonialism.
Fascism is about the State, Fascism is nothing more than a mixture of Nationalism and Socialism/Etatism. One can be a Nationalist, but not Fascist, Dmowski and my humble person is the best example. I can live without the State, but not without ethnic/racial, national and culture identity and loyalty to my ethnic/racial, national-cultural group. This is the very essence of Nationalism, including its economic and social system. Etatists/Socialists prefer strong State, I do not need it and consider it as a threat to the freedom of the people. I deliberately do not use word "personal freedom" because it is a part of the Liberal thinking. So, Socialism is about the State, just like Fascism. National Socialism, implemented by Hitler was a mixture of Socialism and Fascism, National Bolshevism goes even farther, thankfully it has never been implemented in practice, although Russia and China go in this direction.
I refuse both Socialism/Fascism and Liberalism/Conservatism, because they are not bringing the essence of Corporatism and Nationalism – Freedom and Dignity for All Families, Nations and Races in the world.
Marxism is an another story.
Thank you, you're too kind. And for a Pole, you seem to know much about life in the UK. Doubtless a current or former migrant worker salty about the Brexit vote?
No, but I visited your country many times. For jobs and life prospects, Norway, Switzerland, or even Germany/Austria is far more interesting and better, than your miserable salaries, bad public services, crappy and overpriced housings, add to this high taxes, a.o. .