Originally Posted by
pr00ne
And another Brexit Clusterf*ck!
I'm not at all convinced it is, it seems to be yet another deliberate attempt to adversely impact public opinion, almost certainly driven by the desire by the EU Commission to convince the populations of other EU member states that voting to leave the EU, and hence reduce the unelected power (not to mention the gravy train) of the commission, would not be a good idea. The timing of these scare stories seems deliberate - right now the EU has a (remote) possibility of a threat from the anti-EU faction in Italy, for example. There are also still some pretty strong anti-EU control sentiments being expressed by some Eastern European members, too.
The reality seems to be that this is almost certainly a non-issue. Either we'll be granted access to Galileo because we control some of the critical security related content, or we won't, and the EU and UK will do their own thing. The UK probably has greater choice, as we already have in place GPS accuracy augmentation systems, plus access to GPS P code for military requirements, thanks to the agreement we have had with the US for many years now. We could also choose to have our own system for not much more than we'd end up paying for Galileo if we chose to, I suspect, as SV costs are dropping and we already have the technical capability to build our own system.