Rich wrote:The EU has two great weaknesses in its negotiations with the UK: Eire and Spain. The EU could have used Scotland as a lever to break the UK, but Spain wouldn't tolerate it. If Scotland can be an independent country within the EU, then why can't Catalonia? Even if the UK were to leave the EU without a deal, I suspect that Spain's priority would still be blocking and sabotaging Scottish Independence. This will override both EU solidarity and getting back Gibraltar. Contry to the filthy lies of the Brexiteers the EU works very hard and is very respectful of its member states. If a member state has an overriding priority the EU will normally make great efforts to accomadate this.
The key here is priorities, Britain has had immense success in getting its priorities attended to. The problem is the British government's priorities are often things like the interests of the British banking or furthering the interests of Israel. The British government often does not want to own up to what its real priorities are, hence the Euro sceptics lies that Britain is always overruled. If the British government's priorities had been say reducing net contributions and the British fishing industry, then it could have got a much better deal on these things. But they weren't and so they haven't. Leaving will solve nothing, because the priorities of the British government in their negotiations as a non member will be no different from their priorities as a member.
There is no doubt that Europeans have become more pro Palestinian in recent years, so inevitably the EU reflects this trend. Because of this Jewish supremacists have come to dislike the EU, feeling they are entitled to grovelling subservience. They pretend to care about the member nations and support the break up of the EU. They are not to be trusted. They do not have our interests at heart.
Nonsense -
I take your point on Spain-Scotland, but Scotland is an integral part of the U.K, just to recall the Scottish Independence referendum, the global 'establishment' weighed in to frustrate that action, only because the U.K as a whole were not so easy to intimidate, did the populace elligible to vote, do so accordingly.
As with Catalonia, so too with N.Ireland, a unification' referendum in favour of unity would, at a stroke 'solve' the Irish question, by 'unification', I mean the north joins with the south.
I don't see why Spain would object to Scotland becoming a memeber, once it becomes 'independent', for what reason would they want to?
Your anti-semitism comes to the fore here, as does your hatred of the voters who voted leave, 'democracy' is a double-edged sword, by it's nature it cannot please everyone & politicians treat it with utter contempt when 'minority' interest take precedence in the way that they administer the power the electorate gives them for a parliamentary period.
With people like you Rich, with your 'supremacist ' attitude, I am sure that we will succeed once we have left the E.U
& I absolutely refute all that you say in your hatred of Israel.
Leaving, of course doesn't solve everything, it's not meant to, the freedom that it confers back to this country is too precious to cede to any federal structure such as the E.U.
We will make our own success or fail in the attempt, that is the choice that our freedom will give us, the alternative is to,' live-on-our-knees' within a federal E.U, or to 'die-on-our-feet' - 'if' we fail, which, given our mercantile history, along with our national desire to contribute to global wellbeing, will not happen.
The political discourse paints the Tory as the 'conservative' in our national life, that has never been the case, that label actually sticks with the 'Left'.
Freedom is an intangible that people take for granted, losing it is when it's value becomes apparent & real.