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IMO all the drama is not over the significance of the vote itself but rather what it might portend: * The end of the UK (not all parts voted to leave) * The e
by mjklin 10y ago
IMO all the drama is not over the significance of the vote itself but rather what it might portend:
* The end of the UK (not all parts voted to leave)
* The end of the EU (starts a domino effect for other withdrawals)
* The rise of the political right in Europe, and what that means for upcoming elections
* The rise of populism worldwide, and what that means for the US election
* Instability in financial markets due to uncertainty
- DanielBMarkham 10y agoFriday I finally asked some friends on FB to explain it to me. The answer I got was that this was a symbol that is related to a lot of other issues people care about, both overseas and at home. So the thing itself is not as important as what it might symbolize or portend. I think this agrees with what you list. Still, my interest is in free countries peacefully deciding how they want to govern themselves. Much more than their actual policy changes or what it might portend. If I had to have an opinion, simply from watching the monetary policy sausage-making, I think the EU is a beta. And like many betas, it's structurally broken. That doesn't mean stay or leave. I really have no idea how you would go about fixing these structural issues. I imagine that no matter what some folks might think, there are no easy answers. Anything you do is going to suck in one way or another.
- crusso 10y agoI like your view of it as a beta. I've talked about this brexit as a "refactoring". The EU is a code base that grew quickly and accrued a great deal of cruft in a short amount of time. The UK is simply taking their module of functions and breaking them out of the spaghetti EU behemoth. Rather than tight coupling to the rest of the EU code base, they'll be creating new and specific interfaces.