Brexit. Why do Brits want Out of the EU?

The government has been forced by a senior judge to reveal secret legal arguments for refusing to let parliament decide when and how the UK should withdraw from the European Union.

In a preliminary victory for those challenging Theresa May’s power to trigger Brexit, a high court judge, Mr Justice Cranston, has swept aside restrictions on publishing official documents before the hearing on 13 October.

And too often new walls are being build in the heads of some.

Eastern Europeans ‘particularly targeted’, Met commissioner says, with more than 2,300 offences reported since referendum

A “horrible spike” in hate crime after Britain’s vote to leave the European Union was at least partly linked to the referendum, Britain’s most senior police officer has said.

Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan police commissioner, told a hearing at London’s City Hall that hate crime was showing signs of decreasing after a sharp rise in June and July, but it had still not returned to pre-referendum levels.
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So why was the Euro not embraced in the UK?

If a nation is a part of a union, it's either all in, or not at all.

Is there another EU member that held on to their original currency, Walter?

You can't abolish century old boundaries.

You can't abolish century old boundaries.

Is that really true??

British applications for Irish passports at the Irish Embassy in London doubled in August, to 6,710. Applications also rose in Northern Ireland by 80 per cent.

Liam Fox has hailed the opportunity for Britain to become a fully independent member of the World Trade Organisation after leaving the EU, indicating that he appears to favour a “hard Brexit”.

In a major speech, the trade secretary said Brexit was a “golden opportunity” for the UK to trade with the rest of the world, particularly developing markets.

His intervention comes amid a debate about whether the UK should push for a “soft Brexit”, in which the UK would retain as much access as possible to the single market but have to continue to allow the free movement of people, or a “hard Brexit”, which would see the UK out of the single market, and so trading under WTO rules and tariffs, but able to place curbs on free movement.

A Bloomberg analysis of the responses of European countries suggests that the likelihood of Britain facing a “hard Brexit” is increasing. Almost all the countries stressed the importance of the UK retaining free movement if it wanted to continue to enjoy the benefits of the single market.

Theresa May has insisted a bespoke agreement for Britain is possible, claiming other EU leaders “will give us a deal”.

However, Fox appeared to be leaning more towards the option of trading on WTO terms, rather than having to comply with EU trade rules.

Nissan wants Britain to pledge compensation for any tax barriers resulting from its decision to leave the European Union, or the Japanese automaker could scrap a potential new investment in the UK’s biggest car plant.

Remarks made by Carlos Ghosn, Nissan’s chief executive, reflect growing concern among global carmakers that Britain could be heading towards a so-called “hard Brexit”, which would leave them paying tariffs to export UK-assembled cars to EU markets.

Nissan, which builds about a third of Britain’s total car output at its plant in Sunderland, is due to decide early next year on where to build its next Qashqai sport utility vehicle.
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