That said, having the world's 4th greatest military power out of the mix must really be a crimp in those plans for a vast army.
No, if anything there is no one to stop them or make them think twice.
The UK was the restraining hand and the voice of reason.
France was the country that just was obnoxious towards the Brits and sneered at our funny
ways and "obstickles" we put in the way. Whatever way the UK went, the French politicians
just seemed to what to do the opposite. I think they are just fed up with the migrant Calais
crises even though they signed up and agreed to hold the migrants on their turf. This was a
separate deal between the UK and France and not a mandate from the EU.
Germany is the power which keeps everything moving at break neck speed. Now with no UK
to put the breaks on, just stand back and watch the snowball effect now. You think things
moved quick before, you haven't seen anything yet.
Poland always respected and sided with the U.K but they are not brave enough to take
on the UK "restraining hand" position.
The other countries grumble and rumble on but pretty much do as they are told. At least pre
Brexit. Maybe they will start to look more closely at what is happening.
People are saying the Brexit will trigger other countries to leave the EU and the EU will
break up. That is not the case, with every country that leaves, Germany will gain more
power. The Eastern block and poorer countries especially will not leave as they get the most
from the EU.
Germany in trying to avoid past mistakes, the holacaust etc, and is opening the borders to
everyone and anyone as a result - a big mistake.
There is still the possibility of Turkey joining the EU, despite its
deplorable human rights record and mistreatment of woman. There is no way Turkey
could ever meet the EU human rights act, but as the migrants are steaming across Turkey
the EU is making financial deals with them. Turkey still has a long way to go but it will be
interesting to see if the EU relaxes some of its standards for Turkey due to the migrant
problem from Syria.
Let in Turkey, and by default you open the doors to all the countries in that neck of the
woods including Syria, Iran, Iraq, Isreal etc. In other words Turkey opens up the
border to the Middle East. How will Turkey manage their borders?
All people would have to do is cross into Turkey get a Turkish passport then they would be
free to travel across all EU member states unrestricted. You think terrorism is bad now, wait
and see if Turkey makes it into the EU, it may be a couple of years yet. But as the EU is
already paying them lots of cash , I think it will happen eventually.
PS it looks like Cameron wanted Turkey to join, along with Germany, they obviously
considered this was a solution to the migrant crises. Ie let them all stay in Turkey and pay
them billions of EU money to police the migrants and control the border.
Ps the second link is just for the map, ignore the bit about prehistoric cave men lol
By the way I'm no expert on this, it's just that I did a lot of home work before voting.
I wanted to make a reasoned decision when I voted, but if anyone has a different
angle or I have got any of this wrong, then I would gladly be corrected.
The EU's embrace of Turkey could drive Britain out - Telegraph
Europe Map / Map of Europe - Facts, Geography, History of Europe - Worldatlas.com
