Originally Posted by
t43562
The UK has more than one language - it's just that the people who speak only that language are able to ignore the others. The US has Spanish now - which you can ignore if you want to but it's important. You can imagine that English might have been that language for the EU until we muffed it. Now whatever way it develops into a greater power it won't be with much influence from us.
Nor will they, or should I say, should they, have any influence over us. Our relations with the EU, we are entitled to expect to be as accommodating as if we were Switzerland. Any attempt to treat us different would be a further indication of how far from influential we would have been trying to have our voice heard by the tin ears of Germany and France and the like, if we'd remained. After all, it seems increasingly clear that the remain lobby did indeed lie like an old mattress by telling us that there was no agenda to create a single or federation of states. Of course there was all along, we would have had to swallow a hell of a lot more pride being a component part of what is, and will continue to be, a Bureaucratic nightmare. The Euro Army (Armed Forces) will have no work cut out for it in particular, it will be titular and political, to plonk the EU flag firmly on the defence policies of all member states.
FB