permafrost Loc: Minnesota

It seems that the view of most posters on this thread is that the Lose for May was about open borders or emigration..

no, it was not.. It was about the economic agreements among the nations and the UK.. someone was right that the US may get in the cross fire of the squabble..

with the preferred trade status for all EU member and the UK being the big dog in the union, all those trade agreements have to be amended and no one can agree on how to do it..

Mays 500 page agreement may have been good, I have no idea.. the biggest problem is that no one knows what will happen and as our stock market has shown of late, business can not deal with uncertainty..

After all that, one border is a major problem.. the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland went different ways on the withdrawal.. so now the open border they enjoyed for decades will have ports of entry and much more paper work and regulation for import/export business.. this looks to be the most complicated single issue.

so for us, in due time it will be a downward push on American business as well as all the EU and maybe the world..

But for now, it seems pushed to past 2020 and currently should only be more of the last year or so..

and lastly, I only gave a quick read to a couple of articles on the internet, so for more and better information look it up..

ACP45 Loc: Rhode Island

Surprisingly, I found the article to be pretty much spot on. I expected the NYT to be slanted in such a way as to make those who favored Brexit look foolish. The article did state the following: "The debate has also cut along the country’s famously deep class divides: V**ers with less money and education are more likely to support leaving the union." I suspect that may be true, but really don't know.

Bottom line, which is stated by many others, is that those who favor Brexit, do so primarily because they do not want to be dictated to by Brussels on issues such as immigration, supporting weaker economies, and all sorts of other rules that are part of British culture.

If I was a British citizen, I would be in favor of Brexit.

debeda

Just as an aside, France v**ed to exit the EU in 2005. We see how that worked out. Problem is, EU was supposed to be an economic trade agreement, NOT a governing body. The counsel of the EU are not elected. But they have so far overstepped their mandate they should be at the north pole by now IMO

debeda

I think that whole "less money and less education" is a liberal snub, and ALL b.s.