Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Can Britain make Brexit work? | Armando Iannucci | New Statesman" video.

  1. I'm Australian and therefore fairly neutral on the whole mess. The person who I have found to make the most sense is Mark Blyth the Scottish political-economist who works at Brown U. in America. He was intialy against Brexit but did predict that the Leave vote would win. On one hand it was stupid because you literally threw away all the benefits on a set of false pretenses and got NOTHING back. Mark Blyth points out that London's banking sector was the clearing house for all Euro transactions with non-EU nations and now that income to the nation is gone and will NEVER come back. On the other hand the EU has a lot of economic issues because the French and Germans can't handle the concept that the rest of Europe doesn't necessarily work how they think it should work. Mark Blyth also points out that many of the smaller states are in serious economic trouble because without independent currencies that can't adjust their economies very easily. They are all kind of trapped by the European Central bank. Mark Blyth is now suggesting that its a POTENTIALLY a very good thing for Britain to get some distance from the issues that Europe faces and those things were coming irrespective of Ukraine erupting. Of all the things and players in this mess there is one person who I think needs a good old fashions hung, draw & quartering and that's Nigel Farage. As soon as Brexit went how he wanted he just simply resigned and dumped the whole thing on others. Irrespective of how anyone voted that's a 10,000% shite thing to do and it represents everything wrong with populists. One final point on setting up NEW trade agreements. Britain is not in a strong negotiating position with anyone. No matter who is in #10 they need to make deals and that means every negotiation starts with Britain as the beggar not the prince that it thinks it is. If Britain thinks Australia, New Zealand South Africa, India, Canada are all going to play the meek and humble colonials you better Wake TFU because we all remember how you dumped us in the 1970s when you joined the EU. That nearly bankrupted our entire Ag sector and it took over 20 years to recover. AND NONE OF US have simply forgotten any of the other things Britain did over the last 100+ years.
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