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#POLITICS Y O U T H №1 I t d o e s n’ t w o r r y m e , t h e S c o tt i s h Na t i o n a l P a r t y wh i c h h a s a l re a d y p e a ke d i s o n t h e d e c l i n e n o w. To y o u r a n s w e r y o u r q u e s t i o n , t h e v o t e w a s c l o s e e i t h e r way throughout the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland was marginally for r e m a i n , Wa l e s a n d E n g l a n d m o s t l y « f o r » B r e x i t a n d S c o t l a n d w a s a g a i n s t t h i s p r o c e s s . N o w, a c i t y l i k e L o n d o n w a s m u c h m o r e f o r s t a y, b u t L o n d o n ... I believed originally, that she would survive through till the end of M a r c h 2 0 1 9 . N o w, I t h i n k i t ’ s 5 0 / 5 0 … is a much more cosmopolitan city with amongst more significant diverse group of people. There are certain cities, but we voted as one nation, one Z: The question of radicalization on a straight line concerns the main country and the decision was 52:48 that we leave. stumbling block – negotiations on Irish borders. For all this week Brussels and Theresa May worked on the draft Brexit project. As you Z: Do you see a probability that after Great Britain, the EU will also leave consider how initial idea of Brexit coincided with proposals of the other countries? European politicians and how do you estimate final conditions of an exit of Great Britain from the EU? B: I think, that if there were a vote in almost every EU country for their version of Brexit, they would all leave. I think even France would vote B: Аt the moment the deal, as we were told, was that 95% all conditions for Brexit; I think Germany would too. The reason why is because German were met, except for Northern Ireland and the border of Northern Ireland. taxpayers are paying to prop up all these other countries, I believe that the Actually in the past 24 hours, since and I have only seen this on the elite politicians in Brussels don’t understand, is they are so removed from m e d i a , b u t a l o t o f i n d i v i d u a l p o l i t i c i a n s , w h o I r e s p e c t n o w, h a d t i m e t o the reality of ordinary people’s lives. They refuse to adjust some of the look at the five hundred page document say there are so many flaws in the policies of the EU, and instead of having a more flexible arrangement, which d o c u m e n t : o n i m m i g r a t i o n , o n s o v e r e i g n t y, a n d e v e n i n t e r m s o f t h e E U I supported, and I would have stayed in the EU if there was more flexibility wanting to build its own defence force and us having to contribute to that in the thinking of Brussels. They want every closer Union more political these are all things that we object to . so I think that as every minute that union, economic union, financial union that is not in the interests of the UK passes by as people read through this document the proposal that Theresa and I don’t believe is in the interests of most European countries. May has come up with will unravel. I disagree with to date project; it does n o t d e a l w i t h t h e i s s u e s o f m i g r a t i o n . We ’ r e n o w a t l e a s t f o r t h e n e x t y e a r and a half; people can still come freely to the UK and bring their families if they want and get the benefits that have caused a lot of problems for many people who voted Brexit. The EU will still be making all laws and two of the three things that I talked about, which are the sovereignty and immigration, t h e E U e ve n w i l l h a ve c o n t rol ove r. T h a t i s why I h a ve a problem with no end in sight. There is some talk about a backstop, but i t ’ s n o t a h a r d b a c k s t o p . We a r e i n n o - m a n ’ s l a n d , w h e r e w e h a v e l o s t any sense of control or influence in Europe, but the EU still has total authority over us, which is the worst of all worlds. Z: If we’re talking about the main stumbling block of negotiations- Irish Borders, do you think they should build hard borders? 31 32