What practical differences might leaving the EU bring us?

[Pat]

Can't work out which EU thread this sits best in. I'm sure it's coming to a Facebook page near you soon, but it made me laugh and I'm doing my best to crash Crispin's server.


Right. Fuck this. We're ALL up shit creek and we need a paddle. Now, not in three months.
Fellow Remain voters: Enough already. Yes, we're all pissed off but navel gazing ain't gonna help. Not all 17 million Leave voters can possibly be racist northern pensioners without an O level to their name. Maybe they have a point about this quitting the EU thing? Maybe not. Whatever, we are where we are and no amount a whinging is gonna change that. Allegedly we're the intelligent ones, so get your thinking caps on.
Leave voters. Well done. Good game. We hear you. Now you need to get stuck in to the aftermath and not just piss off back to Wetherspoons. (Just banter, twats!). And the first person to say they "want their country back" gets deported to fucking Gibraltar. OK?
Politicians.
David. Fuck off. Shut the door behind you. Now.
George. You may be a twat but you're our twat. Plus you know the passwords for our Junior Savers account. Get your calculator. Drop the face-like-a-slapped-ass routine. You're on.
Boris. Sorry mate. That photo of you abseiling by your scrotum over the London Olympics while waving a Union Jack can't ever be un-taken. Plus, you'll never be able to appear on Question Time again without some sturdy Glaswegian nurse asking where the fuck her 350 million quid is. Not only will she have a very good point, she'll be wearing a T shirt that shows you gurning in front of that fucking bus! No captains hat for you I'm afraid.
Theresa. You're in charge love. Get the biggest shoulder pads you've got. We need Ming The Merciless in drag and you'll scare the shit out of 'em.
Nicola. Yep. Fair cop. You probably could get us on a technicality, as could London. But we fucking love shortbread. And oil. And to be honest you're probably the best politician we've got, so we need you on side. Sort your lot out and we promise never to mention that Jimmy Krankie thing again (although it is pretty uncanny) and we'll make you a Dame once we're sorted. Bring Ruth Davidson. She kicks ass.
Opposition party. We'll need one. Someone take Jeremy and John back to the British Legion Club where you found them. Take Nigel as well. Give back their sandals, buy them a pint, then go to Heathrow and collect David Milliband. Fuck it. Lets gets Ed Balls as well. He keeps George on his toes. I think he works on the lottery kiosk at Morrisons now?
Oh. And Mark Carney. Give him a knighthood and tell him to keep that shit coming. We definitely need more of that good shit!
Everyone set? Right. Hold the Easyjet. We're going to Brussels and this ain't no hen party.
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Rob, I don't agree but love your humour.I'm dared scared of women being in charge as I've suffered from that for 50 years and I'm still scared of she who must be obeyed.

 

[moggy1968]

So, at present there are very few restrictions on travelling with your motor even in countries outside the EU. My green card for example covers Belarus, Morocco, Norway, Switzerland and others that are all outside the EU.

Before joining the EU I also travelled a lot in Poland without restriction

when I travel to Russia, Ukraine or most parts of Africa I have to buy insurance at the border, this is also available in Belarus and Morocco if your green card doesn't cover you. It is relatively cheap and not too onerous to buy, although it does only give you basic third party cover.

I am sure some companies will try it on, but this is a very competitive industry so they are unlikely to pull it off for long

I can travel most of the European continent, and the African continent without needing a carnet so it is highly unlikely that would be a scenario.

In terms of retiring abroad, I also was thinking about France, that may be scuppered, but there are lots of places people currently retire to, such as Turkey, without a problem so don't see that as being a game ender.

I read that Ties article and it's a load of bollocks, the Yoof already travel all over the world, working in America, Australia, Africs etc etc and actually, that claim just backs up what I have always felt about how the EU is a very introspective organisation. I welcome the fact that now, without the shackles of EU restriction, we can be a world trading, commerce and travel partner rather than limiting ourselves to countries culturally very similar to our own.

So, in essence, as with most of the doom and gloom predictions, the reality is, it will probably make very little difference to most of us