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So I've been wondering how England... or I guess in this case"great Britain"likes not being a part of Europe anymore?
I've heard a lot about brexit on the news leading up to it but I never understood WHY they'd wanna do that!
I'm very confused on how the idea to LEAVE Europe even came up to begin with?
And does England still like America as an ally or not?
How this all came up again is that I had camp counselors from England and Ireland that I spoke briefly to about it and that if they liked America any"LESS"now because of that decision and was very surprised to hear them all quickly say No, AMERICA is a VERY important ally of ours, we're'"NEVER"gonna love you any less!
But I'm very confused on how that can be... and how they were even ABLE to fly over HERE because I heard that if they"DID"decide to leave it would screw up traveling and trading with us?
And why would"THEY"not have any say in the vote... like WE can"VOTE"as a nation over here on weither or not we approve of something or a new president goes into office?
Who did the voting?
Because why would the actual citizens have no say in it?
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We're still part of Europe, we just aren't in the EU anymore. I'm not very happy about out-of-control inflation and the collapsing economy.
It hasn't affected how I view America, which has its' own problems I hear.
I don't see why you think Brexit would affect our relationship with the US.
PHEW, thank you... FINALLY an honest answer since I've been on here!
I'm even MORE confused now though!
So you"ARE"still part of"Europe"?
Because I thought leaving eu"WAS"Europe you were leaving wasn't it?
But your saying your still a part of Europe?
What are you not a part of now then?
I don't know why either... I guess because it was such a shock to hear that my"INSTINCT"told me"uh oh"WE"must've done SOMETHING... like"voting for trump"... which fyi"i"never voted for him... that gave"YOU"the idea to leave?
I mean geographically Europe is still the same continent it's always been. The EU is just a trading bloc.
Just like to add some context. It actually has damaged relations between the USA and UK, more specifically regarding the Good Friday Agreement (signed in 1998 and part of UK law).
To sum the agreement up, it is an agreement between the UK and Ireland to keep the border between the two countries open and free to stop what is basically a civil war from continuing. This is an extremely important agreement from the viewpoint of the USA and incompatible with Brexit. The only reason the situation has not boiled over yet is because the UK has not (perhaps because they physically can't) set up import and border control in their own country. Meaning all the borders are free and open regardless.
The US government has repeatedly warned the UK about the consequences of breaking this and the UK government has repeatedly tried to break it causing a lot of social and political instability inside the UK.
There was also a bunch of drama surrounding the UK-USA trade deal which due to the UK not having a full negotiating team after leaving the EU (who negotiates for its members) got extremely biased towards the USA and was the trade version of handing USA the key to the UK making it a very sour pill for the British to swallow when they thought the USA would be friendly towards them.
Not much of this filters down to the average civilian of course, but there has been a lot of drama regarding things like this where the USA sides with the EU and against the UK.
@Soteris The issue with the Good Friday Agreement is that because there can't be a border in Ireland the UK agreed (in the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement) to set up a trade border between Northern Ireland and the mainland UK. Unfortunately the UK government never actually intended to do this, and haven't done so to date.
Regarding the failure to reach a trade deal with the US, I don't think that resonates much with the UK public because we barely trade with America anyway.
True, the UK does not really trade much with the USA but this is more about the optics than the real effects. Brexit supporters had made grand promises surrounding the planned trade deal with the USA as a 1 for 1 replacement of the lost trade with the EU single market which was quickly dashed and the UK politicians (and public) got a reality check when USA did not treat the UK as a "special ally" as they thought they would to the point where some felt betrayed.
What do you MEAN they"DON'T"do much trading with"US"?
They do TONS of trading with us, they say so themselves!
Stop spreading rumors!
We're their biggest trading partner in history!
The UK exports about 15% of their stuff to USA. Most of the exports are going to different places around Europe, more specifically used to go within the EU single market. Why? Because proximity is extremely important in trading meaning you will trade the most with the countries you are close to. USA might be an important and valuable market for the UK but because its so far away it limits the trade opportunity compared to for example Germany or France or Ireland which might be much weaker economically speaking but are also much easier to trade with.