r/PoursTea • u/Timbucktwo1230 🫖 Mod ☕️ • Sep 14 '26

European Renaissance 🍾 🧀 🍻 🇬🇧The Future?

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u/TheBlargh5000 Sep 14 '26

Each country would inherit their part of the UK debt. It's highly likely their economies would be too bad for the EU to consider letting them join.

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u/B41LSY Sep 15 '26

Why would those countries accept another countries debt? This type of thing was answered during the Scottish independence referendum, the same with currency etc.

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u/TKarlsMarxx Sep 15 '26

Because it's their debt, it's not England's debt, it's all of the UKs debt.

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u/B41LSY Sep 15 '26

It's actually not, this was one of "better together" questions that was answered at the time. The 3 nations can't legally take debt, only the English parliament can do that.

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u/Frosty_Shame8876 Sep 16 '26

They can't. But during the negotiations England can say you have to pay for your part in those debts. Funny that.

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u/B41LSY Sep 17 '26

What negotiations? Isn't there a saying about assumptions.