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andrewducker) wrote2018-09-12 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2018-09-12 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 12-09-2018
- Societal issues explained (by throwing people down pits)
- (tags: society satire )
- The EU is betting that Brexit will make a trade deal with India a little easier.
- (tags: europe india uk trade )
- Why has Brexit become a legal matter when it should be a political matter?
- (tags: politics uk Europe law )
- Kieron Gillen's new comic looks interesting
- (tags: comics roleplaying )
- Brexit: Now Conservatives are suggesting the EEA for three years as a stop-gap.
- (tags: uk europe doom )
- There has been no Corbyn surge in Scotland
- (tags: Scotland labour politics )
- EA defies Belgian loot box decision, setting up potential gambling lawsuit
- If they decide that loot boxes are gambling then I can't see how, for instance, Hearthstone card packs aren't. Or, indeed, Magic: The Gathering card packs. This one could be absolutely massive.
(tags: gambling games belgium ) - Which artist do you think draws the most handsome/beautiful/sexiest characters in comics? Any genre. (Nice range of styles in the replies)
- (tags: comics art beauty )
- 'She has to go': Conservative MPs meet over plot to oust Theresa May
- I don't actually think she'll lose a vote of no confidence
(tags: conservatives ) - Barnier confronts Raab over discovery of Brexit no-deal letters to EU27
- (tags: Europe UK doom )
- Movie Star's Absence Shows Perils of Show Business in China
- (tags: movies China money )
- Brexit: EU can 'certainly not' accept Theresa May's single market plan, Juncker warns
- (tags: europe uk doom )
- ‘Super-recognisers’ employed by UK police to hunt criminals may not be identifying people correctly
- (tags: faces vision uk police fail )
- The Effectiveness of Publicly Shaming Bad Security
- (tags: security journalism )
- Finding balance in the universe, a short story
- (tags: short_story scifi ethics morality )
- A single gene mutation may have helped humans become optimal long-distance runners
- (tags: humans genetics running )
- Tom Watson says Momentum should drop speaker who vandalised Warsaw ghetto
- (tags: labour Jews OhForFucksSake )
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We can be in a state where we are still technically in the EU but in the process of transitioning to the EEA but that that transition is irreversible. I.E. that we have taken the decision to join the EEA once our transitional arrangements within the EU have expired and can not proceedurally reverse that decision.
I don't think it is going to be impossible for us to rejoin. Particularlly if we remain in close regulatory alignment. The EU will always have room for prosperous liberal democracies. They may want us to join Schengen and the Euro, or at least promise to at some point in the future. I'm not all together sure that they would insist. The prize of having Britain rejoin the EU might well be big enough on its own. Big economy. Big change of mind. Big apology.
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I think my assumption with regard to the UK economy post Brexit is that it takes some sort of negative shock in 2019-2021 (ranging from big to huge) and then grows more slowly in the period 2021-2040.
"Huge" might well involve a temporary disruption to reliable food supplies and the death of hundreds of thousands of people but that would still leave us more prosperous than Albania or Bulgaria or various North African states.
I do have some concerns about the quality of the liberalness and the quality of the democraticness of our liberal democracy. We migth become more authoritarian and have a more instrusive security infrastructure but I think we are unlikely to be a full on fascist state.
But, yeah, always worth bearing in mind that prosperous liberal democracy might be a temporary state.
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Aah, gotcha. I think I agree, but I'm not 100% sure.
Up until March 2019 we can reverse and stay in.
Once we hit that date, we may well have transitional agreements, but we are no longer members of the EU. So we may well have all sorts of rights (as part of the transitional arrangement), but we aren't a member of the EU or the EEA or anything else.
So joining the EEA doesn't affect our membership of the EU at that point, because we've already left.
Re: other discussion on our liberal prosperousness, I certainly fear for both of those things. The possibility of Independence there is helping me stay somewhat saneish.