Thread: Brexit: Article 50 Has Been Triggered !
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Old 12-02-2017, 23:52   #100
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Re: UK Exit of EU (Brexit)
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy View Post
We are a sovereign nation. We can do ANYTHING we want and that includes tearing up EU treaties and NOT paying a penny. It may be the nuclear option but it exists.
If you read the article you will see that if we simply left the EU then all flights into and out of the UK would end overnight, which would cause a meltdown in the country. The full article in the FT explains why. But I appreciate, as you say, that we can do this technically.

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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
Talk about 'sore winners'...
Spot on.
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