Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "What Happens to Gibraltar After Brexit? Britain's Territory Stranded Post Brexit? - TLDR News" video.

That's the name of the game, blame others for what's going wrong in one country, Brexiteers like to blame all the wrongs in the UK on the EU even thought most of what's wrong in the UK are down to UK national governments policies, Trump supporters are the same in the US, it's others faults and not their own, they always like to deflect blame away and not look in the mirror to where the real problem is. On the plus side, the UK won't have that excuse after Brexit, that's when reality starts to come in that the UK government was the problem all along and the EU wasn't really much of an issue, even better because the Conservative government has a clear majority, so they can't deflect blame on the EU or on others like the Labour Party, basically, it's them that will have to own the mess that happens and throw in the mess they are making with the pandemic, well I suspect the next 5 years could be quite tough for many.
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@markcolonna6874 Actually, that's not how democracy works, democracy is always a constant moving process, your version of democracy is that the vote is final regardless of what the public thinks of Brexit afterwords, polls for the last 2 years have consistently showed that the British people would vote to remain in the EU, does that sound like democracy to you? but then people like you idolize people like Trump who is quite happy to undermine democracy. As for rejoining, we may do but the problem is that once we are out, good luck getting back in because it would only take one member to block us and I can think of a few that will, best chance for the UK to rejoin the EU once fully out will be for the separate countries of the UK like Scotland and Northern Ireland to leave the UK and rejoin the EU, I doubt EU members will have a problem with that but I highly doubt EU members will let the entire UK in the EU for decades now as we've always been the troublemakers in the EU, after all, many are glad to see us go. If Brexit ends up leading to the break up of the UK union, Brexiteers are going to look mighty stupid, the term little Englander will actually have some real meaning then because lets be honest, Brexit is mostly an English thing, hence all the noise in Scotland and Northern Ireland on Brexit.
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@markcolonna6874 The irony is that if you look at polls, they've been consistent that Brits want to remain in the EU for the last 2 years now as the lies of Brexit become more apparent to the British people, as for Brexit it's self, lets be honest with ourselves, it was sold on lies and it's been like that from the start, if the truth was told from the start, chances are, the British people would have voted the other way, hence why Brexiteers are bending over backwards to make sure another vote won't happen but that is risking the break up of the UK union. As for the EU, since Brexit happened, support for the EU has been growing, not only that, no EU member actually wants to leave now and some that had ideas of leaving the Euro or EU are having second thoughts thanks to the mess the UK has got it's self in, that and some help from Trump.
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@petem6354 Things are different now and that means they need to decide now on what's best for them, your logic is as flawed as the logic that Scotland shouldn't get another vote because they voted to stay in the UK but this was before the Brexit vote happen, a lot has changed since then and many Scots would likely want to re-think things. Personally, I think Gibraltar and all the other 3 countries in the UK should get that options which I think will happen regardless of what the government says.
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@kgw72 Problem is for Gibraltar is that the heart is screaming Britain but their mind is screaming Spain because most of their trade and work is dependent on Spain, now even thought they are part of the UK, they are just too far away to matter to the average Brit on that island, whereas Spain is on its doorstep and that matters a lot when it comes to the local economy. Basically, they do need some kind of good deal with either the EU or with Spain or it could hurt the local economy a lot and it wouldn't surprise me if Gibraltar goes it's own path away from the UK. As for the UK and it's legacy, I don't know, I think it's done a lot of harm around the world by divide and conquer, spitting countries up so they have conflicts together, many which still do to this day, India and Pakistan and much of the Middle East is just a few example.
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@FOLIPE That's the sense I get from the Brexiteers in the UK that they don't care what happens to Gibraltar, they see this as a us vs them kind of game with the EU and don't care who gets hurt in the process, hence the reason why the likes of Gibraltar, Scotland and Northern Ireland should look out for themselves because clearly the UK government isn't going to do that.
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@glynnwright1699 Actually from my understanding, they want the French back since the Chinese moved in because things seem to have got a lot tougher with workers rights since, apparently, the French treated them a lot better than the Chinese are.
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@glynnwright1699 It's not so much that they don't give but that they work them very hard whereas the French didn't, I've heard many of them would prefer the French back compared to what they've got now, even thought at first they wanted the French out. The EU doesn't keep Africa down, in fact the EU has very open access trade with them were basically there are no tariffs on goods they export to the EU and also throw a lot of aid money their way but I do think more could be done on building that relationship. The US doesn't seem to have much interest in Africa even before Trump got into power and with Trump in power, they had less interest, I doubt that will change much with Bidan in as his focus is very likely going to be else ware, the EU and Africa are in the best position to foster stronger relations because of their location and trade.
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@glynnwright1699 I never said it was but I can only go on the information around and the US have pulled back a lot from Africa, China have pushed a lot in and many in the region don't seem to happy about it, I've heard many stories where they want the European back but China offers cheaper labour and in poorer countries, that matters a lot but unfortunately, it means less rights, worse conditions and worse treatment as China are far less friendly on human rights than Europeans are.
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