Re: Acts/ Dictates/ Mandates/ Mantle - Amy's Thread
So what does everybody think about the EU and Britain?
Janet? I'm curious about an Aussie perspective.
Me: Britain's promise to its homebound citizens was to spend the money that was draining out of their country on its own citizens. We'll see if that comes to pass. Greece is sweating bullets right now. Mainland Europe is deciding if they want to bail. What a mess.
The horror of it all is all the google hits wondering what the 'EU' was. Americans. Sheesh.
I can give you one Aussie perspective, but I haven't really been around to get other personal ones, just what I saw in Aus news outlets. It was practically non-existent in the US news media because Clinton or Trump wasn't involved! And no one at work had any opinions - misses my old colleagues and friends a bit - so at this point it's just what mr C and I are thinking (okay, so make that 2 Aussies!). 
You guys have re-established my faith in the American people though! *fist bump* Thanks for asking!
I would've voted "leave". All the EU did was to introduce another level of governance with positions filled by leeches that someone had to pay from money they don't have. The only real difference the EU made was to open the borders between the EU members despite the varying levels of (in)competence of some of the members to actually control borders and therefore they adjusted the border control of the whole block to the lowest common dominator. And as we all know, open borders is a great idea! [I'm being sarcastic here - I actually support legal immigration which should include humanitarian visas, but not a free for all.]
After the EU did that (open the borders) and got all the trade agreements in place (which isn't even worth the paper it was written on - it replaced in kind agreements for most but I can stand corrected on this one - this is all my opinion), they had nothing to do really. So instead of downsizing, they did what any bureaucrat worth his mettle would do: kept themselves busy by interfering with things where they shouldn't and weren't ask/supposed to (and redistributed even more money that no one had from countries on the brink of collapse to already collapsed countries), and just managed to piss people off in general. So for the last how many years they excelled at that thing bureaucrats do best: nothing worthy or what they were supposed to be doing while being paid to do so and losing touch with the people.
So for a few countries this was just bloody awesome. For the rest, meh, not so much except unwanted interference. I'm not surprised the Brits are first to go - there are a lot of theories flying about in the US media at the moment, which is all good, but to me personally the only one that I think matters is national identity. The Brits have one hell of an identity - mmm, and they kept the pound around instead of using Euros ... That is of course ignoring the outpour of money and the influx of immigrants.
Yep, no one saw this coming. \some more sarc - only if you had your head in the sand or worked for the EU you didn't see this coming.
I think this is the start of the end of the EU. The EU never really had a function to be honest. And despite the market reaction, this is nothing really. These countries existed before the EU, they'll do after the EU too. Worst case, people have to apply for visas to work/live in GB again. *gasps* That's basically the biggest issue. Oh, and they have to find a new PM. If they need advice, Australia can help them real quick with how you get rid of PMs overnight. Also not anything too concerning. (You'll note that I couldn't give two shits where the EU administrators and council members find a new job - then again, their buddies will make sure they're taken good care of).
IMO, Germany will also leave the EU, soon after the UK, although probably not the first.
So in short, I think the British royal family/the queen has more purpose than the EU.
