However the EU brought this on themselves.
Their arrogance in believing they could create a superstate without the support of the peoples was always going to come apart at some point.
UK cancelled our referendum on Maastricht (because someone else had already had one, and one was enough for a veto). I thought this was a shame at the time ... pity we, and others, did not do that, it might have sent a clearer message and prevented the EU megalomaniacs doing Maastricht-by-any-means
two people were to change their mind, the result would have been entirely different
The EU have a small window of opportunity to react positively, with humility, and make substantive changes
Agree with all your points, although I don't share your foolishness feeling. I don't think the UK has the urge to be European, in the way that continental states do. I'd love to be a trading partner ... "Economic Community" ... but, for me, that's it.
Although the £/$ will always be up and down I suspect there will be a long term downward trend for the foreseeable future
Yes, i agree. Did not surprise me that currency / FTSE bounced back after initial nosedive. But I can't begin to fathom why rest-of-world went down and stayed down ... its not something I know anything about though.
with Cameron resigning, the likelihood of a general election will be greater
Not heard that one, what's the thinking behind that? I thought we had 5-year fixed terms now? (although "no confidence" routes to an earlier election exist, and probably others that I haven't bothered to pay attention to)
The EU have a great influence on trying to get western european countries into being more green.
I hadn't considered that, but I haven't seen it either. Some time back Labour said they would fix prices of fuel if they won the next election (no idea how they intended to do that ... but ...) so Cameron knee-jerked "We'll have a discount now instead" and the net effect was that the Green Kickback, that energy companies were obliged to ringfence, was negotiated out, and all that incentive converted to cash-discount-now
, EU didn't seem to wade-in?. Green Incentives in the UK seem way too modest to my mind - no idea of UK-alone will be better than EU-enforced, but if what we have had to-date is the best that EU can enforce "
It aint enough" IMHO (I consider myself about as Eco as I can be; we have passive house [virtually no heat required in winter], solar PV and Thermal, lots of energy saving stuff; with hindsight I made a bad move when we decided to switch from TurboNutter sports cars to Eco - we wound up with 3x VW-stable BlueMotions - thus shafted by lying-cheaters - but we are rectifying that with BEV replacements now). Anyway, I would like government to do
way more - I just can't see why inward investment on Eco doesn't pay for itself in a very short time period in reduced Petro-$ to Middle East and others. When the Crude Oil price fell like a stone I would have liked to see government cap the fuel price with a variable tax, and stuff all that revenue into Green Agenda. A Sovereign Wealth Fund on the profits from North Sea Oil/Fracking?, like Norway, would have been nice ... I'd best shut up now before you lot form a lynch mob!
... trouble is, whoever you vote for the Government always gets in ...