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Britain's Brexit 'leap into the unknown' (video report0
2020-02-01
[The Independent via France24] We look at the main British front pages on what is being called Brexit Day. There is some euphoria at the country's departure from the European Union and also some anxiety as the Brits go it alone. We also look at reaction in some of the French papers as the spectre of a breakaway UK looms on their doorstep. Join us.
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  "Leap into the Unknown" WTF? Britain was an independent nation for 1,000 years.
Posted by: Secret Master   2020-02-01 23:00  

#11  ^ i'm ok, eurok
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-01 21:51  

#10  The Euro is such a metrosexual type of currency.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2020-02-01 20:49  

#9  The European Union was not all that great for GB. Probably good for the "Banksters" and globalists (probably one and the same). Time to get their sense of nationalism and culture back. They, like us, had long-standing identities that were rapidly being erased.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-02-01 17:33  

#8  The fallacy at the heart of the idea of a united Europe stems from ignorance of the fact that European civilizations Greatest advances occurred because of European fragmentation and internal conflict. Had the Holy Roman Empire dominated all of Europe the way the Ottomans or the Byzantines dominated their territories, Europe never would have had the Renaissance, the discoveries and expansion across the globe, or Scientific Revolution or Industrial capitalism and all of the huge advances in public health, chemistry, aviation, mass communications etc.

A united Europe is a stagnant Europe.

Europe has ALWAYS advanced on the basis of competition, strife, challenges to central authority and orthodoxy.
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-01 10:00  

#7  That train may turn out to be The Flying Scotsman.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-02-01 09:55  

#6  The lap into the unknown was trying to force the peoples of Europe into an empire for the third time in a century.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-02-01 09:51  

#5  'One World' Globalistsâ„¢ leaping off window ledges and bridges, that kind of "Leap"?
Posted by: magpie   2020-02-01 09:47  

#4  What is with this BS metaphor of "a leap into the unknown" -- as if Britain was always and forever part of Europe?

It's a divorce. Marriages sometimes fail. The separation can sometimes be traumatic for small children - like the childish hysterics who write for the British press.

But it's not some lead off a cliff. There are costs to a divorce, but the parties know this, and recognize that the benefits of separation outweigh them.

Posted by: Lex   2020-02-01 09:35  

#3  The EU now has 1GB of free space.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-02-01 09:29  

#2  Congrats, BP!
Posted by: Frank G   2020-02-01 09:11  

#1  More like waving at the titanic from a lifeboat.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-02-01 06:43  

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