At the moment ...
United Ireland will happen within a few years, followed by an independent Scotland rejoining the EU.
United Ireland will happen within a few years, followed by an independent Scotland rejoining the EU.
Today, Wales is thought of as a constituent country of the United Kingdom, on par with England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. From a standpoint of the monarchy, it's all one unified realm of The Crown.
FWIW, the Tories probably going to be in power for at least another half-decade or two.
2) The queen has now reigned for 68 years
2) It's still a kingdom, whether a king or queen rules.
The freedom to be undercut in the labour market and priced out of the housing market by uncontrolled immigration from other EU countries?
If I was worried about economic undercutting I would be worried about China and other Asian countries because they not only have the advantage in numbers, China is nowadays the go to place for manufacturing even for high quality products. The key aspect is that the quality control is managed by first world economies. For some reason the Chinese are really terrible at creating medium/premium quality brands.
I’m not talking about refugees, I’m talking about economic migrants, both skilled and unskilled.
In any event, please could you explain to me how adding approx. 3.5m EU nationals to the UK benefits young people?
Consider the challenges faced by young people in the UK today, including widespread unemployment and underemployment, and a chronic housing shortage where the supply of housing is virtually fixed.
I’ll let all the young people know there isn’t a housing crisis after all, and seeing as the millions of EU nationals residing in the UK don’t need housing, young people needn’t worry.
And yes, the fact that a lot of voters don't really know what's going on (or suffer from cognitive dissonance, fostered by the terrible English tabloid press) is a large part of what's going on.
But I'm sure things will improve dramatically from 1 January... /s
Your council tax system basically seems batshit crazy to people from anywhere else. I am guessing that there's some serious history behind how the UK arrived at this point.
My point in this thread is that uncontrolled migration from the EU has not helped the matter.
It is a real, tangible example of how EU membership has harmed the prospects of young people in the UK.
I'm sure that without large quantities of foreign workers willing to do the most menial jobs specifically this situation will immediately improve. /s
I should point out I’m talking about both skilled and unskilled labour here.
British university graduates don’t stand a chance when they’re undercut by French, Spanish or Italian professionals with a decade of professional experience willing to work for peanuts.
A small number act to stimulate supply in those markets (e.g. entrepreneurs setting up businesses, or construction workers building the pitiful number of new homes that get built each year), but the vast majority simply add to the demand-side, driving down wages and increasing rents and property prices.
This applies to both skilled and unskilled migrants. The former often come with savings and significant professional experience. Great for businesses, rubbish for our young people.
Neither of which are the main sources of our problems.
I mean, with the current agreement they already have special status (no borders) and I think NI people can get Irish Citizeship easily.
It sounds "nice" to have a unified Ireland from a purely simplification perspective but I wonder if it's actually a popular idea in NI.
At 1.8M people, it would be larger than Cyprus, Malta and Luxemburg, so yeah.
It is an interesting possibility, but would it make any sense?
People who want a united Ireland wouldn't like it, and people who want it part of the UK wouldn't either. Both may like it more than the opposite alternative though.
Is it that time when we pretend that the barrier to a United Ireland is somehow British intransigence rather than Northern Irish sectarianism?
Unfortunately for sectarists in Northern Ireland, catholics have more children there. A quick glance at the declared religion by age will tell you all you need to know. Catholics will soon outnumber protestants in Northern Irland. From there unification seems unavoidable.
For those who are not familiar, in the Irish context republicans are republican in the sense that they want to reunify the Republic of Ireland, unlike the US GOP they are largely democratic socialist.
I feel like I’ve been hearing this for most of the last 40 years and it’s still not come to pass.
One curve is steadily going up while the other trends down.
Or since I've been playing Cyberpunk 2077, they'll have some sort of digital border, and there'll be digital smugglers going back and forth...