Brexit. Why do Brits want Out of the EU?

we have the German and the EU flag there (we adopted the Lisbon Treaty).

Where in the Lisbon Treaty doesit say a country has to have the EU flag in its parliament?

Paragraphs are important - feelings are unimportant.

The Government will seek a “legal recognition of the unique status of the North and the circumstances on the island” as part of the arrangements when Britain leaves the European Union.

Speaking to The Irish Times yesterday, Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan gave the clearest signal yet that the Government is seeking a special status for Northern Ireland as a solution to the threat of a hard border on the island.

Today the Government will decide to set up an “All-Island Civic Dialogue”, to be held in Dublin on November 2nd, which will involve political parties, civic organisations, trade unions, business groups and non-governmental organisations from North and South.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny will bring a memorandum to Cabinet today on Brexit issues in which he will outline the proposal to Ministers.

Government sources say that preparations for Brexit are accelerating in the wake of the announcement by British prime minister Theresa May that she will formally begin the process of leaving the union by invoking article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty before the end of next March.

we have the German and the EU flag there (we adopted the Lisbon Treaty).

the pound sunk to a new 31-year low

It is shown here in Germany (and 16 other EU-states as well)

Dresden sure did show a lot negative feelings yesterday the 3rd.

Angela Merkel has significantly stiffened her rhetoric on Brexit, telling an audience of German business leaders that any exception to the EU’s single market rules would represent “a systemic challenge for the entire European Union”.

The German chancellor’s remarks reflect an apparent toughening of positions in European capitals after Theresa May announced on Sunday that the UK would begin formal divorce talks by the end of March and indicated it was heading for a “hard Brexit”.
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If any one country was allowed an exception, she said, “you can imagine how all countries will put put conditions on free movement with other countries. And that would create an extremely difficult situation.”

The applause for Merkel’s comments put a further question mark over the argument of British pro-Brexit politicians that German businesses will inevitably pressure their government to preserve their trade links with the UK and resist tariffs.

Markus Kerber, the leader of Germany’s largest industry group, said last week that trade, investments and single market solidarity with the rest of the EU were more important than the volume of business German companies do with Britain.

Joseph Muscat, the prime minister of Malta, which will hold the EU’s rotating presidency when Britain triggers article 50 of the Lisbon treaty to launch the two-year exit process, told the Guardian that May had made it plain “controlling immigration will be her number one priority”.

That made her subsequent statement that she also wanted British business to have the maximum opportunity to operate within the single market “problematic, to say the least,” he said.

The four freedoms – free movement of goods, capital, services, and people – could not be decoupled, Muscat said. “That cannot be negotiated … These principles are the basis for everything the EU does.”

Brexit was “not just an accounting exercise” for the EU 27, he said, adding that Britain’s deal had to be be “fair, but it has to be inferior. The idea that Britain can come back with a superior deal, or even the same deal, is not acceptable.
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Gibraltar’s economy, which is based on the financial services sector, tourism and online gaming, depends in large part on its access to the EU’s single market.

“Spain has formally invited the United Kingdom to open negotiations to reach an agreement so that the mandates of European Union treaties keep being applied in Gibraltar,” Spain’s UN ambassador Roman Oyarzun told a committee on Tuesday, according to a copy of his speech.

He proposed joint sovereignty “which would allow Gibraltar to remain in the EU”.

Under the proposal Gibraltarians would be able to keep their British nationality and would also be able to gain Spanish citizenship.
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In the committee meeting Gibraltar’s chief minister, Fabian Picardo, rejected the proposal outright, pointing to past rows with Spain affecting the crucial land border, which many Spaniards cross every day to work in the British territory.
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Peter Wilson, the UK’s deputy permanent representative at the UN, said Britain would not enter any negotiations with which Gibraltar was not content.

1 British Pound equals
1.27 US Dollar

I remember when it was 1 pound = $1.50 or more.

Definition: Grade II
For buildings, Grade II (two) indicates that buildings are “of special interest, warranting every effort to preserve them.”
Principles of Selection, DCMS, 2010
For registered parks and gardens, Grade II (two) indicates that the site is of "special interest, warranting every effort to preserve [it]".

Do you remember what years that was? I used to visit the UK often during my travel days, because London was one of my favorite cities to visit with their world class museums and theater. Ever been to Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese on Fleet Street? We had a a2k meet there once.