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  15. ​ @19822andy  Define "absolutely disastrous". Major cities will suffer months of aerial bombardment? Ships bringing goods to UK will be sunk by submarines? Businesses in the UK are ready for a no-deal - not that you'd know it from the propaganda you get from the BBC. 1. We ALREADY get huge amounts of food from outside the EU - most of the oranges I buy are from South Africa or Israel (depending on time of year and which supermarket I go to). I know that a major UK supermarket has already got contingency to buy 100% of its veg from North Africa, if the EU started to play silly buggers (something which would only hurt EU farmers; how long would that last?). 2. The UK government is in control of customs checks - if there was a "shortage" of something critical, like medicines, then the government could charter a plane - or send the ruddy RAF - over to the continent to pick up whatever was required and just wave it through. Sure, there may be some delays and additional costs, but ANY change is going to incur these - should the Irish not have become independent? The Indians? The South Africans? No, life would go on with very little or no disruption for people like you and me BECAUSE THERE'S TOO MUCH MONEY TO BE MADE on both sides of the channel and THAT is what they're afraid of; they're afraid that business people, who're good at making money, will find ways to make Britain successful - of making money - outside the EU. And just as a historical note, Napoleon tried to blockade the UK. He failed, because the blockade was bad for business. https://www.britannica.com/event/Continental-System The ONLY people it will be "absolutely disastrous" for are our politicians, as they'll no longer have the EXCUSE that "the EU made us do it".
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  125.  @flaviusbelisarius7517  No, I wouldn't. I agree, it's the hardest part of our constitution to understand, but actually, fundamentally, our constitution is "Britain is a Nation of Laws". There is a tacit acknowledgement that a constitution is /just another law/; it is created by Man and is, therefore, *by definition*, imperfect (which comes very-much from our Christian heritage). What we have is actually, ironically, a PERFECT realisation of what Thomas Paine said in The Rights of Man; only the living have the moral authority to make laws. A written constitution, for which, Paine advocated, is the, ironically, the dead imposing their will on the living... And as anyone who observes Tin-pot Dictators will know, a constitution is no barrier to tyranny - it is the institutions and the people that operate them that are the guardians. Another aspect is that by having an unwritten constitution, we maintain flexibility - no one (or group) is smart enough to forsee all possibilities; do you think that the Founding Fathers would be happy at corporations censoring (oppressing) people? But because the constitution didn't ban it, it's okay, RIGHT? So, no, in spite of the terrible precedent set yesterday, I do not think that the solution is a "written" constitution as the REAL problem is that the politicians don't /understand/ the value of the system we have... If I were to offer a solution, it would be something along the lines of: Throughout our history, we have held those in power to account; we have shot admirals and even beheaded a king, but we've never hung politicians... Perhaps the incentive structure under which our politicians operate needs reconsidering?
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