Brexit and the future of the EU

[John Galt]

i wasn't really comparing them and not going to argue the point that exploited was attempting to make. i was merely pointing out that Britannia had a long list of actually bad decisions made by parliament throughout their history, and some glaringly obvious ones included the Coercive Acts. the Coercive Acts "made sense" for the motives of those passing them if they thought by teaching the colonials a lesson they all would come on board; they thought they could just revoke all the charters and the subjects would be happy under the new administrations. I think they were genuinely bewildered by the american response to the intolerable acts. you went all red coat with it, but it wasn't the idea of a tax or even how much it was, it was the treatment of the colonials as not-citizens that made the people mad, an idea which the redcoats just couldn't even get their heads around why these people think they are somehow entitled to anything. but sure, you can bring up the corn laws. The Corn Laws are why we have The Economist though, so there's something

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[Saz]

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[Kane]

Encouraging news:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles ... early-dead

May went to Merkel, Macron, Tusk, and Rutte with her hat in her hand. I think most of the EU will just see that as a political ruse meant to scare them into doing something that was originally created by the UK in order to gain advantage yet again. This will not end well.

[Circe]

f**k the uk and f**k the eu and f**k every1 slapin their tongues bout em aint nobody care