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#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-07-21 08:29 PM
"UK has done significantly better economically "under Brexit" than EU"
- - - - - Rich people in UK, sure. Rich people are doing significantly better globally.
Don't know what this has to do specifically with the subject, but it's generally the case "globally" (including UK) that the "rich" usually do better than "not-rich", Brexit or no Brexit.
If you're a young person in UK, your job prospects are not what they used to be, because you can't go work in EU any more.
Not accurate, even in the article they say that they could work in EU, it would just cost them and they would have to jump through hoops for visa and permits.
Would it be nice for them and others, not affiliated with larger companies, to travel and work without the hassle and expenses? Sure.
But none of this requires or is a good reason for the world's fifth-largest economy to re-join EU and share dysfunctional EU's economic and political problems with UK's own.
These are really minor issues that could and should have been very easily resolved long time ago without undoing Brexit, if only EU stopped being so "Trumpy" towards UK, trying to "punish" them for dissing EU by making some unreasonable demands and/or stalling economic and cooperation agreements; it also didn't help that UK itself had many changes of government over this period.
Hence, movement toward some kind of "reset": FTA: The good news is that the U.K. and EU are starting to repair their broken relationship... Officials on both sides are also working toward closer integration on a range of issues, including trade, energy, security, and crucially, freedom of movement.
Both UK and EU economies would benefit if they embraced as much "free trade" as they could, and some of their politicians stopped feeding either "full integration" or "Britain First" nonsense to people.
Just like Canada doesn't have to be "51st state" to have great economic and social relationship with the USA... the vote to rejoin EU is not needed and is unlikely to be successful; it would only take time, resources and reopen old divisions and acrimony.
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-I frankly am not enthused by what I see in the Eurodescendant workforce ethic of 20-year-olds.
But that's been the viewpoint of people your age towards the 20 year olds for at least the last 50 years.
IOW, 60-70 year olds have been scared of 20 year olds for a long long time.
-You only need to be brought up in a house where the only book is an unread Bible.
Are you of the opinion that's a lot of houses? And to be more specific.....houses where people vote?
I know many republicans in office. State level and a few at the Federal level.
I don't think it's as simple as some here need it to be....that if there is an "R" after your name, then you view education as a threat.
Certainly that's a stretch if the republican in office has a very good education themselves and realizes the benefit. Is it an assumption that republican is sinister enough to know the value of an education so to cut support of education, it ensures a dumb and ignorant constituency and a solid base to keep where you want them?
I'm not saying you're wrong...just clarifying what you mean when "MAGA hates edumacation" type comments are thrown out.