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kleinbl00  ·  2861 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Brexit looks likely.

    kleinbl00 mk You guys need to step back and look at this in perspective.

'k...

    What you are going to see next is people preparing and making motions to leave. This will cause all sorts of panic and uncertainty in the financial markets and trigger swift corrections in the British economy. The process in general will be very painful. Unemployment will go up, the pound will crash, prices on imports will go up, EU member countries will refuse further negotiations and all sorts of doom and gloom talk will happen.

Uhhh... here's what I said:

The world will not end. Dogs and cats will not sleep together. HOWEVER a whole bunch of people who firmly believe they have better shit to do are now going to have to burn a shit ton of blood and treasure on treaties and trade agreements and boring shit like that while the rest of the world aren't.

If you're going to accuse someone of losing perspective, perhaps you should champion a position more moderated than them, rather than less.





snoodog  ·  2861 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    If you're going to accuse someone of losing perspective, perhaps you should champion a position more moderated than them, rather than less.

Hey man dont get defensive. Im agreeing with pretty much everything you said here. By step back I mean back from just looking as brexit being something that is a done deal that will require burning of immediate resources. Internal political capital will be wasted immediately but the vote that has concequneces and starts more serious talks doesn't mean an immediate break from the EU or renegotiation of agreements.

I may have come out too apocalyptic, that was not my intent. I only meant that a lot of the consequences of brexit will become immediately obvious through some of of the forms I mentioned while many of the gains would only be realized years down the road if brexit actually got completed out.