Now that the dust has settled, on a scale of 0 to 10, what do you think will happen to them over the next 20 years?
0 being the UK utterly disintegrates and 10 being the British Empire completely reconstitutes itself, regaining all former territorial holdings including the United States.
rule britannia
5.
We will leave the EU, but we won't.
My prediction:
Britain gets the Norway deal, basically still using the free market, still getting the Poles, still abiding by EU rules, but now having any say in what those rules are.
Good luck chaps.
*not having any say
0
looking for an Irish ancestry right now, i hear they're handing citizenship out like candy currently
4 or 5.
If the UK finally leaves, Scotland is going to ask for another separatist referendum, fracturing the UK.
Now, how bad that would be to the rest of the constituent countries, I have to guess not much; London is still -and will remain so- a very strong financial center.
Bare in mind things aren't going to change much for the incoming decade: Britain will want to stay in the common market, but that means they will still have to pay basically the same and have to accept free movement.
In such a situation, I'm guessing the UK will lose importance, lots of it -while still remaining at least a continental power-, and then we'll have to see after that decade whether or not the situation would change or not.
If, on the other hand, the UK is dumb enough to break relationships with the common market, the country is going to fall for sure; it probably would take more than just a decade, but the end would be written in such a situation.
Strong countries with global reach don't just fall on a wimp, it took Spain several wars, a civil conflict, no industry and several years to actually fade from the world theater, the UK would take just as long.
5
I don't believe they'll actually leave the EU.
Ooooooooh really?
In the next 20 years the EU will collapse entirely. Britain will be looked upon as the nation that instigated it and some saucy bitch from Bordeaux will let me hatefuck her.