Comments by "Archangel17" (@MDP1702) on "BBC News" channel.

  1.  @Dagoth_Ur_1  There is no support whatsoever in EU countries to leave, not after the debacle brexit is proving to be. Hell, even parties that formerly argued to leave the EU switched their language to "reform the EU". Brexit even caused the EU ties to grow stronger. Are there problems and discussions? Yes, just like in any nation/international organisation. The EU isn't sinking and if it were, it wouldn't be because of brexit.
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  2. No, the UK wanted a Canada+ deal. Furthermore things are different between Canada-EU relations and UK-EU relations. Canada doesn't have a border with the EU, it doesn't have the good friday agreement, it is as close geographically, it isn't as much intertwined with the EU, ... And if I am correct, the Canada style deal is actually the starting point from what they have now. It is just impossible to completely copy it and be done with it.
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  3. +SteveFusionX It's quite often that European capitols are melting pots of different cultures, don't make the mistake to take a large capitol city as an example for what the rest of the nation will become. Is the EU flawed, yes. But when these flawes will be eliminated, it will be much better than being independ. For example: a unified european army would could be much more efficient and at the same time cheaper than what we have now. The immigration crisis could be solved much easier if the memberstates actually had less influence, because now you've everyone with different visions running around making everything much difficult than it has to be. Now, let's look at what would happen if the UK abandoned the EU: 1. economically the UK would go downwards. Because despites of this money the UK has to give to the EU, it's receiving: much more in return. When the UK leaves, the most optimistic prognoses still say that the GDP will go down with about 1-2%. The large trade agreements with China, US, .... will dissapear. Britain loses negotiating power, companies that went to the UK because it was Europe's gateway will leave for other EU members. 2. Diplomatically: Like said before the UK will lose negotiating power, scottish independence could be sparked, Irish politicians said this could make border agreements null and void => The UK might actually start crumbling down. 3. Immigation: people will not just stop coming, the only change might be that the EU behind the scenes let the immigrants who want to get to britain slip through and make it your problem. Immigration might go down, but not as much as you think and most Eastern europeans who wanted to move to the UK already did, so no point in leaving the EU for that.
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  4. Plum Bit The euro is still stronger than many other currencies in the world and pre-Euro european national currencies. Greeces financial crisis is not the EU's fault. high tax evasion (only taxes paid for a few 100 swimming pools, while google earth shows several 1000 on first glance, people even buyed camouflage for their pools), bad financial welfare systems (like families of ex-ministers, .... getting payed for doing nothing the rest of their life), bad use of budgets,... and it goes on. If it were the EU's fault, britain, france, germany,... would suffer the same. refugee crisis would have happened either way. What would have happened without EU: refugees swarming into europe, borders get closed(probably a lot sooner), refugees stuck in greece (even more than now), condemming language from other parts of the world, possible sanctions on european countries by international institutes  ... Could the EU have done better, yes. Could Europe without EU have done better, no
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  5. SteveFusionX that statement wasn't an argument to keep the UK in the EU, how could that be an argument if the UK doesn't even have the euro. It was a statement to another reaction, yes the pound is stronger than the euro, but trust me it will take a dip when the UK leaves the EU. And besides the pound is just one of the few currencies "stronger" than the euro.
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  6.  @liamfraserobrien  Churchill was voted back into PM in 1951 untill 1955, after 5 years of being opposition leader.
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  7. Climate change is seen as more important than brexit by practically everyone in the EU, maybe only with bussiness that trade with the UK not. Brexit is barely discussed in the news and definitely not in private. Brexit has become a side issue to most.
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  8.  Kervyn Ducker  You know keeping fish stocks would be expensive? First you need to get the capcity to do so, then you need to actually stock it (at freezing temperature if you want to keep it fine, though it will never again be considerd fresh), ... The cost of storing it might be higher than the price you get for it after. And selling to the rest of the world is stupid. Maybe you can sell a small part elsewhere, but 1) cost would increase and freshness goes down, 2) it would have to compete with fresh cheaper fish from local fishers/closer fishing grounds and 3) tarrifs would be applied. No, if you can't sell the fish in the EU, you won't be able to build up your fishing industry.
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  9. It is if you border the nation which might be untrustworthy (for example look at the internal market bill). fishing isn't necessarily in it normally, but this is because of the situation from the last few decades. And even if the EU gives in on fishing, the UK is not ready to really fish its waters and 70% of fish caught in UK fishing waters goes to the EU. In the end fishing is economically insignificant to the UK, it is purely symbolic. The fishing problem is much more complex than most people think, but I am sure if everything else was settled, fishing would be quickly worked out.
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  10. They have done so for decades, why change now ;)
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