Anyone could have seen this coming, complete with the loss of prized jobs in the City of London. There are many in the EU who want to be punitive even if certain other major financial centres outside the EU are allowed Euro clearing on a massive scale.
That's a huge tax base gone, hence why the UK government appears to have used cooperation in other matters as a threat, because there is very little leverage.
But I think the words out of Weber seal that there won't be much cooperation in the near future.
”From now on we will have the interests of the EU27 in mind, not of the British," Weber said. ”That's the outcome when you leave this family.
”Some of the politicians in London have not understood what leaving the European Union means. It means being alone."
That can go both ways. The Tories aren't exactly going to respond "oh, sorry" to that. I don't see any way in which there's an amicable agreement about much at all.
Based on what? The same ignorance you're suggesting everyone else has on the subject?
Yes, I'll choose to remain ignorant of that cuckolding business he was talking about. All the more power to you, I don't judge.
In all seriousness, to any outsider like you or I, he seems like any other politician looking at anything else. I should have put that I
bet he's a great leader instead, so yes, you caught me. I did know beforehand that he's left of centre though which made some of the responses to his comment a bit much.
