"michael adams" wrote in message
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"T i m" wrote in message
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This looked quite sober reading (and from Feb):

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21693568-david-cameron-will-struggle-win-referendum-britains-eu-membership-if-he-loses


Thanks

The only one that many people won't have known about
already is probably

quote

Article 50 provides that the EU will negotiate a new agreement with the
withdrawing country
over two years. That can be extended, but only by unanimous agreement. The
article also
specifies that, when agreeing a new deal, the EU acts without the
involvement of the country
that is leaving.

/quote

So that basically rather than going in there and negotiating the best
deal for the UK - a scenario
accepted by many commentators - the UK will have to stand in the corridor
outside the headmasters
office and then be called in, once the likes of Rumania and Poland have
finally decided what her
fate should be.

Britain doesn’t have to do anything like that. Just say "we're off, like
that or lump it, bye"

Humiliating ? No of course not.