Quote Originally Posted by insider View Post
When you say eat us alive do you mean carry on as we have been for the last 40 odd years or do you think they will change the rules.
He means that we won't command the authority we used to within the EU while we were threatening to leave. We basically would have an incredibly weak hand if we were to return now.

I wanted to stay in the EU, but we voted out and out we have to go otherwise democracy is at stake. I still think it was a dreadful decision and the negative impacts have barely started.

On the other hand I will cheerfully leave behind a European Commission run by the petty minded little bureaucrat Junckers, who thinks he's President of Europe and is trying to arrange his succession to cling onto power when he has to step down.

Brave New World coming up - let's hope the younger generation have the balls to make something of the shit we've left for them to deal with