The Brits aren’t in a bad situation now, not at all.
They should negotiate new deals with their own partners under the Crown, so as for all of them to be more aggressive - Australia must become a more important Asian hub, Canada has all sorts of physical benefits, such as being enormous, full of resources
and very cold with many bays, which is good with an eye to the future.
This will be interesting for NATO matters, the balance will shift, a conflict is likely to happen between the US and Germany, whereas France might benefit hugely from this by becoming the financial center.
The financial times published a list of assets of Frankfurt and Paris, notably also the number of Michelin star restaurants. Of course that is no match - Paris is far more attractive.
Paris might bloom under this - in fact, It probably will. London is bad competition, but Germany never was much of a problem, financially speaking.
It’ll be most interesting to see what Germany will … ‘do’.
I don’t think they can move in any direction. They can just try not to be the worst assholes they can be, but mediocre assholes. They will have a lot of business to straighten out with the Swiss, no doubt, and the Austrians… secretly they will admire the Brits, as they always have.
Canada is more interested in developing trade with Asia and South America. It’s unlikely that a Commonwealth relationship would be revived at this point in time.
Maybe the UK can just get something going with everyone globally? Why pick and choose just a few old colonies no longer swayed or wowed by the old country. You got oceans, you can ship stuff everywhere… you just need a weaker pound to do this.
I mean to provoke WWIII by teasing the Germans about their inability to prepare snails to the liking of City-folk looking to jump ship.
The German Snail will become the next project of Krupp and Bayer, and it will deplete the German economy, and in the end France will take over the Rhineland in exchange for some cooking secrets. But these will not be of any avail to the Germans, as a snail simply does not taste good when eaten in a German styled room. I imagine. I never ate snail. In any case this will drive the Germans, nearly depleted, which is when they are at their best, over the edge.
Where the Netherlands will be in this moment, is unclear, after all, we do not appreciate snails, or Germans for that matter all too much.
Traditionally, our rich buy second houses in France. Not in a sense of a trend, but of basically a hard law. Anyone with a capital of over a million has a house in the country in France, and that is about 1 percent of the population, and then there are a lot of less wealthy who also have houses or cottages or ruins that they will one day fix with their grandchildren in the Dordogne and around thereabouts.
Vacation in Britain will be cheap now. Last time I was there in the countryside was when I saw Llanfairpwllgwyngilgocherigwyrnndrobwllantisiliogochogoch.
You’re right though. What is holding them back from re establishing a proper trade empire? As big and aggressive as their economy has been in monetary terms, they’ve still been operating in a straitjacket in terms of having the wealth benefit their actual country. I suppose all those Russians, Chinese and Kuwaitis that own half the Thames shore will now unload their properties so that people can actually go live there.
That’s an admission that they are just another country competing in the global market. In a revived Commonwealth, they could see themselves taking a leadership role.
The city of London, I mean the actual city, not the City, will be rearranged entirely, in terms of monetary priorities. A whole layer of banker/bureaucrats will leave, the highest income scale will lose at least a third of its people, which means that prices in the city will go down dramatically, a whole segment of the economy will no longer be sustained.
Russian mob will move to Germany. Affairs between Germany and Russia will get darker and darker and more impenetrable in the coming decade. Now the Brits arent there to keep the Germans somewhat constrained, their hatred and power lust will gravitate to the east again. They will become very tough about the Balkans, as that is their default state; being prepared for war in the East. We’ll see a lot of national properties re emerging now.
Holland is liberated by this. For the first time since WWII it has a choice, two real options, containing in them myriad versions. Where we were forced to sit back choke and be obliterated by Brussels and its unnatural weight, there was never a moment when you felt something was possible. Now the Brits have given us tremendous leverage. Because a Nexit would be fantastic for them, and they will give us all sorts of great deals for it, whereas the Germans will do a lot to keep us in. We just need to keep the Liberal government in, as when we’d get Socialists now they’d just hand everything to Germany and then say thank you.
I spoke to a friend from Yorkshire, about it this morning and he was offended that I offered congratulations. A lot of Brits would suffer disquiet now, I imagine… yet world-historically this had to happen. There was no doubt that the EU would eventually collapse, as it grew more hated every year and more violent and rotten and fucked… no one who thinks about it for a second can agree that Brussels, a city that is become worse to live than the Gaza strip, could ever be capable of sustaining, even just symbolically, an order of such magnitude as Europe, in its full potential, represents. So all the EU nations had to become petty and ugly and stinky and shitty to fit into a superstate with Brussels as capstone.
We can breathe now. Provided that the government in 2020 won’t decide to annul the referendum, which is a small nagging fear that I have.
My hope is that the Dutch will follow and form a beautiful alliance with the English, worthy of their old partnerships by which the two of them conquered the world. Of course they wont be able to rely on slave trade and opium has become more problematic as well, but there is plenty to concoct and be creative about, as we step out of the dank shadow of Germany.
I have to condition my statement about the Austrians - I read a facebook comment from Vienna now that was panicking, saying no one is an island!
And I realized what this means for them - in the Brits they had a counterforce against Berlin, which is basically Prussia, and has always been their enemy and rival. Prussia and England are arch enemies, just fundamentally different types, whereas Austria and England share much of the same values, they are both surviving aristocracies, in different senses. The history of the German unification, at least since 1870, is the story of striking artificial alliances between Austria and Prussia, with the use of wars on the French.
I had just arrived here when Pezer informed me that in order to become a Canadian citizen, you have to pledge allegiance to the Crown. The referendum would not have been made possible if the Crown hadnt been ready to secede. And this Royal house is tied to the House of Orange, the Bilderberg hosts and the patrons of Lockheed Martin who are the co-founders of Nato on the European end. So you can bet that the Dutch economy is ready for this, and that the English will renew their ties with them and that none of this will be open to the Germans. We’re neighbors and with some investments, the North Sea will become the locus for the sort of aspirations that we now sell to the oil states.
Magsj, please suggest up the ladder that we wish to have under-sea shopping spaces and recreation centers with glass ceilings in the North Sea providing clean energy through tidal dynamos. We’ll engineer the thing if you finance it.
