>>84256396Scotland just barely stayed in at the indyref. They'll go on and join a bloc with Scandinavia if they have to. Ireland too; it's not like the EU is even the only trade bloc in Europe. And that's Ireland, not the Republic and Northern Ireland - if Brexit happens you're looking at reunification. The current legal status of Ireland is that all Irish citizens are also British citizens - but that also means the 1.4 million people in the north can apply for Irish citizenship. From the sound of things, most of them already are.
And Wales? Wales was dependent on spending from the EU that it's now clear the Brexit Club didn't want to raise in taxes in the first place. So the choice for the first five years will be one of the following: pensions, regional development, or the NHS. Then it'll be a choice between whichever two of those survive that first period (hint: it's not the NHS), with pensions probably going first (because poor people are idiots and most of the pensioners who voted for this will be dead by then anyway). Then the regional development funds go and you're stuck with England ruled by NuBarons whose power is being formalised by the introduction of regional assemblies (because power to the people and all that) and devolution of taxation and budgetary power over all services in their regions. Except the way taxation works is the poorest regions will simply lose most of their services overnight and become burdens on the rest, which are already underfunded. I mean ffs they've already closed half the A&E departments, cut the flood defence spending, these are non-trivial cuts that have had very real and far more expensive impacts. But nobody seems to care.
And on top of that they're cutting corporation tax - but just to stand still on the money we already owe after 6 years of Osborne, that means VAT is going up (to probably 35%), because it's already 1/3 of the tax take. And the services will still be cut until nothing remains.
You've been had.
