Originally Posted by
GOLF_BRAVO_ZULU
The UK's exports are only around 58% to the EU and our imports only around 53%.
On Sunday, Christopher Broker challenged those figures. Allowing to invisibles exports to EU are near 40% and in goods alone just above 50%.
Originally Posted by
Top Right
Maybe the EU sees "security and stability" as the only sensible way for multinational/multiethnic people to live together in certain regions where history and tribalism doesn't sit well with border lines that have often been drawn up by Western countries.
Is it not curious though that these multiethnic peoples fight to expand their Western imposes borders? There is never any "oh what a mistake they made not defining Kurdistan. Yes, they can have their historic borders and have their soverignty recognised on the international stage." Or, of course it was an aberation that Iberia was divided into just 3 countries. Of course Calalonia should be recognised as a nation state.
And what about independence for Sheffield?