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I know I shouldn't - but I'd be lying if I said I didn't cackle.
Why the cackle? Our standards are higher in most areas than EU ones, we're not 'giving' anything.
We follow ISO standards in pretty much all of the areas we have competitive advantage. ISO standards are based on improving efficiency, not politics and lobbying, unlike EU regulations. Which are also created with boring, restrictive, Roman civil law.
Also...
London is still the hub for the whole continent, the EU failed miserably to take any markets from the UK.
Good job, old chap.
If you really need an explanation why this is funny: Brexit was about how unfair and nasty the EU was being towards GB. And now they realised that, oh wait, actually, there were quite a few benefits, can we please have those back? And we'll even make do without the special treatment, like we got while we were in the EU!
That's a bit funny to me, if I'm being brutally honest.
To be clear: I'd be all for the UK rejoining the EU (you can even keep your currency, my treat). Would be better for both sides. I'm not laughing at the British people, I'm laughing at the political class.
No one said there were no benefits. What a facile argument. Do better.
agriculture policy for example
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/eu-agrees-relax-green-rules-farming-subsidy-reform-2025-11-11/
EU is winning the race to the bottom. Pretty fucking ironic.
All I know is that your people are the ones asking for a "deal" with nothing in return. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Which was also true as EU members. Nothing stopped a member from having higher standards.
Oh my sweet summer child.
Very true, however brexit hasn't fully happened yet. There are still a lot of deadlines waiting to happen. I doubt that the EU will be happy with its financial center on the outside of the bloc.
Deadlines for what?
London clears 900 trillion euro a year in derivatives alone. You need us more than we need EU, not Europe, we are part of Europe, just apart from. We still have the biggest navy and unfortunately we are entering a time where might is right.
Clearing deadline extended to 2028 it seems. https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.ft.com/content/3cad1c8d-0478-47d3-a2e1-9bae066de647
I'm well aware that the EU need the city, but if you think Brussels will allow that to go on forever you're fooling yourself. The EU will not and can not allow their financial center to be outside of its regulatory control. The EU commission was unhappy with the citys grasp of the financial market in Europe before Brexit and wanted to limit its power, only to be stopped by the EU court when the UK was a member. They are not happier now, and the court will not stop them this time.
We have the biggest individual navy in Europe (excluding Russia, but... well we've seen how that has been faring), but we do not have a bigger navy than the EU together. If there is some naval threat that the EU cannot handle, we are in an even worse position to try to face it alone. If we're operating on might is right logic then we absolutely need the EU, because we aren't competing with heavyweights like the US and China alone
That's not my point at all. We are allies. We don't want to outsource our lawmaking is all. We can make our own rules, common law is more flexible for innovation, our risk appetite is higher than continental Europe.
We are devolving power in the UK, not centralising it somewhere else.
So why bring up the navy in this context?