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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Fri Mar 31, 2017, 05:11 AM Mar 2017

Here's how the Brexit will play out, step by step:

Greece's economy could have been saved with a quick&dirty deal. Except the EU didn't trust Greece to stick to its side of the deal, because the greek government had already falsified financial documents from 2000-2009.
Germany's minister of finance Schäuble insisted on a comprehensive and finely detailed plan... And hammering that out took so long that Greece's economy finished its nose-dive.

I expect something similar with the UK.


1.
The UK will want a quick&dirty deal where they get the best of both worlds: The economic advantages of being an EU-member but without being beholden to EU-laws and without being forced to pay their share.
The EU on the other hand will negotiate hard and slow-walk this into a complicated deal to make sure that nobody else dares leave the EU in the future.

2.
While the deal is being negotiated, the british economy is taking a hit, because all the travel- and trade-treaties have been undone.

3.
AND THEN (in 2018/2019) conspiracy-theorists will show up to complain that the EU is trying to destroy Britain for daring to leave them.
The US is an evil empire and therefore the EU is an evil empire by guilt of association...
The CIA, George Soros and the Zionists are to blame for whatever problems arise...
The EU is plotting to overthrow the british government, just like they toppled the ukrainian government, just like they tried to destroy Greece, just like they were involved in the turkish coup, just like they tried to topple Assad...

AND THEN (in 2019/2020) Russia will offer Britain a closer relationship. Britain will say No and Russia will complain that it's being demonized in the West.
Anybody who's against a closer relationship between Britain and Russia is an agent for the EU-forces trying to destroy Britain.

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