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What will Britain look like in 2019 after leaving the EU ?

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  • BobQ
    BobQ Posts: 11,181 Forumite
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    edited 27 January 2013 at 11:59PM
    The OP tells a thoroughly unlikely tale in my opinion. The next election is unlikely to return a Cameron majority. I think its more likely to return a Labour led Government, probably with Lib Dem support. The Conservatives will lurch to the right and become aggressively anti-European. The SNP will have lost the referendum and many of their supporters will return to Labour and Lib Dem. The Lib Dems will pick up support from the Conservatives pro-EU wing. Cameron and Clegg will be replaced or resign as neither will have the confidence of their parties.

    Of course the change of Government will make little difference to the average person but amid the continuing slow recovery relations with the evolving EU will improve.. Business will support the re-aligned Lib Dems, persuaded by its more constructive EU stance. Several nations will have left the Euro or be planning to do so and the Euro economy will have stabilised.

    By 2019, UKIP and the Conservatives will begin negotiations to merge and Cameron may well have joined the Lib Dems.
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  • movilogo
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    In next election Conservatives is very unlikely to win.
    Labour will probably get majority. UKIP will replace Lib Dem.

    As Lab and Conv are two sides of same coin, nothing will change. We'll be taxed even more, more immigrants, more misery.

    I wish UKIP get a majority but most people don't even read party policies anyway.
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  • It is true that whatever the colour/s of the next government many people will not notice much difference. That's because they think short-term and tend to only notice things that affect them directly, predominantly financial things :- the price of petrol and of milk, the mortgage rate, how many Euros to the £ for their holiday, and what's in their pay packet each week/month.

    Many things are lost on them, things that creep up like :- dumbing down of their kids education, the chaos and non-caring culture in the NHS, political correctness, the increasing power of the EU to dictate things in the UK. By the time they realise these things, if they care at all, they take the traditional modern British approach of apathy, acceptance, and defeatism : "You have to stay cheerful, don't you."

    That's why we are so poorly governed, whoever is in office, and that's why politicians get away with so much.
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  • StevieJ
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    movilogo wrote: »
    In next election Conservatives is very unlikely to win.
    Labour will probably get majority. UKIP will replace Lib Dem.

    As Lab and Conv are two sides of same coin, nothing will change. We'll be taxed even more, more immigrants, more misery.

    I wish UKIP get a majority but most people don't even read party policies anyway.

    I think UKIP will learn a lesson on PR at the next election ;)
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • Catapa
    Catapa Posts: 182 Forumite
    Agent-47 wrote: »
    The UK will always stand shoulder to shoulder with the USA.

    Delusion. The US doesn't stand shoulder to shoulder with the UK, they are a multi-cultural society with their very own agenda and don't care much about their former masters.
  • BobQ
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    Catapa wrote: »
    Delusion. The US doesn't stand shoulder to shoulder with the UK, they are a multi-cultural society with their very own agenda and don't care much about their former masters.

    The US does not stand shoulder to shoulder with anyone, whatever their cultural composition. The US behaves like we did 200 years ago, so we have no right to object.
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  • RJP33
    RJP33 Posts: 339 Forumite
    Catapa wrote: »
    @Niv Being part of the EU (or the Euro-Zone) doesn't prevent anyone to trade with the United Commonwealth. Germany exports twice as much to India (the most populous UC member) than the UK.
    This speaks volumes and is completely unacceptable. We’ve been concentrating on Europe for too long at the expense of the developing economies.

    Think I read somewhere that Belgium exports more than us to China?
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