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Recent political stuff:
- The vote to see if Britain should adopt Alternative Voting has failed.
- Lib Dems lose lots of councils and councillors, whilst Labour make the majority of the gains in England.
- The Scottish National Party do really well in the elections.
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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 3rd 2023 at 11:15:30 AM
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We don't have any issues there, check the line of succession. Unlike Japan, it hasn't been pruned. 
I mean, it goes down what, a few hundred people? Lose too many people, and you end up in a personal union with a European country. No escape from the continent I suppose.
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You have to be in communion with the Church of England, so that one's rather hard. ![[lol]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lol2v12_4863.png "[lol]"){kind=small}
Yes, but conversions are accepted so long as you have not at any point been a Catholic.
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Which rules out the Spanish royal family I suppose...
Though how long that monarchy lasts is anyone's guess.
edited 4th Sep '17 7:58:08 AM by Rationalinsanity
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Eh, the Spanish royal family got overthrown and then came back. I think they're at least somewhat resilient.
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So, what could be the chances of the UK rejoining the EU or staying independent while staying strong?
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Very low to both. Joining the EU requires unanimous consent from all other EU members, which probably won't happen now, and the UK is way more dependent on the EU than a lot of people like to admit. Especially with the way negotiations are going. As it stands, it looks like the UK is going to have to work from absolute square one, using people who have no idea what they're doing.
edited 4th Sep '17 8:01:22 AM by Zendervai
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Whilst the euro is a thing, essentially nil on the first. And I still think that a unified currency like that is a terrible idea.
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Actually yeah. The UK isn't going to get away with keeping their own currency if they try to rejoin. The best they can hope for is a Norway, which means following all the rules while having no say.
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Which is unfortunate, as not joining the eurozone is possibly the one reasonable anti-Europe position that was adopted.
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If the UK came back, I wouldn't mind them keeping their currency. Sometimes, it's best to accept different currencies in order for the EU to harness a country's strengths (which the Euro could jeopardize in some quarters, were it to be adopted by said country). True, especially since the Eurozone is still not secure/stable enough.
But some of the other opt-outs? Nah, the UK didn't took full advantage of them and (partly) threw them to the wind. Some price will have to be paid, in that department.
edited 4th Sep '17 8:57:37 AM by Quag15
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A currency that averages out southern Europe and northern Europe isn't treating either party correctly. Add in the lower number of financial controls... the EU isn't enough of a union for the Euro to actually make sense.
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Above all I would want the UK to accept the EU charter and naturally no rebates anymore. I actually prefer them to not adopt the Euro just yet and I am also not keen on them being in Schengen either. They are a island anyway.
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Have them go metric out of pure spite.
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Considering the primary UK exports of bad food and terrorists, I'm cool with them not being in Schengen.
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Legally, we already are except for: 1) buying drinks in pubs, and 2) road signs. And there is no benefit to replacing the road signs.
You take that food comment right back.
edited 4th Sep '17 10:24:06 AM by RainehDaze
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I will never understood how the English managed to ruin their taste buds so thoroughly. The only good food stuff from the UK comes from either Scotland (whiskey) or Ireland - I even like the Irish brown bread, and usually the lack of German bread is the worst thing about more or less every country.
Oh, bother.
And then there's Marmite...
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If you want ruined tastebuds, try working out why Scotland puts so many spices in haggis and scotch pies.
We seem to have made a lot of pies, really.
Over here the Brits are mostly known for three things: overly boiled meat, mint sauce and overly sweet cookies. Even English breakfast tea is an acquired taste if you ask me. The only thing I like it mint in chocolate, otherwise the British cuisine is a non starter for me. I mean, I like the concept of a Sandwich but the execution is kind of unfortunate.
Honestly the worst thing Davies could do to Barnier is to invite him to a typical British meal as revenge for all the time Kohl forced Thatcher to eat Saumagen.
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I have no idea how we became known for boiling meat. That is not, in any sense, how things are done (there are exceptions but I don't think I've ever been cooking ham). The mint sauce thing is somewhat accurate, in that it exists and is paired with lamb, though, but that is... pretty much it. As for the biscuit thing... well, there's quite a lot of biscuits you could be thinking of there so I can't really comment.
I have no idea how a sandwich as a concept can be done badly as it's simply "food in bread" and that is ancient and far broader than actually being British, for all we gave the thing a name.
edited 4th Sep '17 11:44:19 AM by RainehDaze
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"Eh, the Spanish royal family got overthrown and then came back."
Three times: Napoleon arrested them for trying to murder each other, and later there were two Republics.
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The Duchess of Cambridge is pregnant again.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41148027
Nice to see that at least one royal line is totally secure, eat it Japan.
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