Richard White
Senior Member
Sounds like a lot of wishful thinking and serves you right attitude. The UK is nothing without the EU? Such zero sum absolutes are ridiculous. If Norway, Iceland, Turkey and the Swiss can survive by trading with, but not belonging to the EU, so can the UK. The EU and UK will still trade with one another, just like they did when Britain was part of EFTA - the Brits just don't want to be ruled from Brussels and have some foreign bureaucrats tell them how to live, do their business and whom they must allow to enter and live in the country. When the UK police begin rounding up Albanian criminals and Roma beggars and pushing them across the Channel we may see some wishful thinking from other EU members.
But at the end of the day, it doesn't matter what some talking head on CNN thinks. The British people voted to leave the EU, and just reaffirmed that choice by giving the Brexit Conservatives the largest majority since Thatcher.
Actually the nordic countries are members of the EEA. They are quasi-EU members. When the UK leaves they will not be members of the European Economic Area like the nordic countries are.