The UK always had one foot in and one foot out of the EU
The British have left the EU and today is the first day of the departure and I feel that in time to come the UK will come to regret their leaving.
The vast majority who voted for Brexit were senior and older UK citizens who, in my opinion, were suffering from nostalgia and who were looking back on days of glory and empire that are long gone and no longer exist and by them voting to leave the EU and restore this back to them. But in the real world this won’t happen.
They have destroyed the future prospects of the younger British citizens from working in the EU and going to college and university in countries like Germany and France.
Quite a number of people wish to see EU citizens leave Britain.
If this is true it may backfire on them as the British expats may be told to leave villas in Italy and Spain and return home to Britain as the UK can’t now have their cake and eat it.
Britain was never fully committed to EU membership from the time they joined the EU in 1973.
They did not want to join the Euro single currency and dragged their feet on every move towards integration.
They were never fully European, with one foot in and one foot out of the EU.
The UK were asked to join the EU in the 1950s but did not join till the 1970s.
By then the EU was made in the structures and image of what the Germans and French wanted it to be and when the British could not get their way they now are left with sour grapes in their mouth.
The USA thought they could control the EU and rule it on the backs of the UK but now that’s not happening as Britain has left Europe the Americans will drop the Brits like a hot potato.
Donald Trump has no more need of them and will flush the special so-called relationship down the toilet and Boris Johnson’s Britain becomes a puppet...vassel state of America in their sell by date to Uncle Sam as Britain goes from the frying pan into the fire and Britain divides up into different countries.
Yours faithfully,
Martin Ford, St Anne’s Terrace, Sligo