Pyro as Bill said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:
ROFLMAO at the bolded part. Also consider that France has it's own nukes, and more of them (120 active nukes for the UK compared to 290 for France), so that move would result into a mutual assured destruction - but mostly the annihilation of the UK since it's more nukes and much less territory to cover with them. But I digress.
The EU doesn't need to and won't blockade anything. With borders come border checks, and the amount of imports right now compared to the amount of personnel and equipment means that there is much more inflow right now than can be processed. In other words, all points of entry would clog up with wares that need to be checked by customs. That's (one of) the reason why so many companies are stockpiling all kinds of materials to make sure that they can continue working without interruption after Brexit, at least for a while.
Ireland's trade relied on the UK until the early 90's. But that's only true for the border towns anymore, the rest of the country would do just fine without the UK. Nothern Ireland, on the other hand, is totally relying on Ireland right now.
"World history can basically be summed up as England ignoring and doing the opposite of whatever scheme the continentals are doing." I suggest you learn some history then, because that's blatantly false. That's only true during the French revolution through Napoleon's reign and during WW2 - and that's in both cases because some power-hungry man conquered mostly all of the continent. Summing up entire history on these two points just shows how wrong you are. The UK had always cooperated with the other European countries outside of these two events. The Entente in WW1 for instance is the result of cooperation with France and Russia in the late 19th and early 20th century, for instance.
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France would rather surrender than be destroyed. We're different. (I was larping btw). Point was that any delays will be self inflicted unless the EU starts committing acts of war. Many gullible remainers in the UK think the EU determines how much food and medicine we're allowed.
Right now, there's no need for checks because we're completely aligned. Going forward, there might need to be checks but it's not like the EU is some 3rd world country so we'll let your stuff pass.
I agree Ireland's economy has realigned from UK-heavy to EU-heavy just as the UK has realigned from world/empire/commonwealth heavy to EU-heavy. That will change going forward.
(Catholicism, protectionism, monarchism, fascism) - Ironically we abolished the monarchy 100-150years before the US and France yet they still get all the credit. Nicky and Wilhelm were the only real monarchs going in to WW1 but the English crown had already learned to bend the knee and that's why it's one of the only real 5 kings left alongside hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades.. We stepped in to WW1 at the last minute (in British terms not American) and could quite easily have stayed neutral or chose the other team. We should have stayed neutral in both wars and played both sides so we could keep our immense wealth but we're too noble for that.
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Errr... no. WTO rules would mean there has to be checks unless a trade deal of some kind can be signed. The increase in paper work alone would increase time for drivers at ports by 10-fold (see Swiss border to pretty much every EU Country).
