Chapter 824 Brexit?

On October 5, Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, passed away due to illness.

It can be said that Jobs has been fighting against illness over the years. Of course, it is also because he has enough resources that he has been able to persist until now. If it were an ordinary person, a terminal illness like pancreatic cancer would be impossible. Live so many more years.

After Jobs, Apple has entered the Cook era. He will continue to run Apple and move towards the goal of becoming the world's most valuable and most profitable mobile phone company.

But Barron understands that after Jobs's death, Apple will gradually lose their ability to innovate. Until Barron is reborn, Apple's mobile phones can still only be regarded as "resting on their laurels", relying on their loyal fan base and the United States. The suppression of Huawei has allowed Apple's success to continue.

On this day, Barron learned of the death of Jobs after a private meeting with Cameron.

Although he didn't have much contact with Jobs, and Jobs was criticized in many aspects, it has to be admitted that in terms of business and design, Jobs was a genius.

Therefore, he could not help but feel emotional about the death of Steve Jobs.

Currently, Cameron's main focus is on reducing British government spending. In this meeting, the two talked about the European debt crisis, and the somewhat sensitive British society is increasingly Brexit intentions.

In fact, Britain's European policy has always been quite controversial at home, with both the public and political elites divided on this issue.

Historically, Britain was initially dismissive of France and Germany's launch of European unity after World War II.

In 1957, when the Treaty of Rome was signed, marking the start of the European integration process, Britain was not involved.

It was not until 1973 that Britain decided to join the European Community in order to share the benefits of the growing European Common Market.

Then in the early 1990s, when European countries negotiated the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, which laid the foundation for monetary integration, the then Prime Minister John Major ignored the opposition of the "Eurosceptics" within the Conservative Party and signed the treaty. Signed - This caused unprecedented divisions in the Conservative Party and indirectly led to the Conservative Party being in opposition for many years.

During the Labor Party's administration, although Britain joined the European Union, it was still wary of European integration due to the strong Eurosceptic sentiment among the people.

Although Britain signed the Maastricht Treaty, it did not join the Eurozone...

Britain also did not sign the Schengen Agreement, which was later established to further promote the common market...

Then when signing the Lisbon Treaty, it asked for "rights of exception" in the fields of justice, social policy, etc...

Until recently, after the European debt crisis, the Conservative government, which returned to power, even publicly rejoiced that Britain had not joined the euro zone.

Specifically, during the evolution of the European debt crisis, objectively speaking, Britain and the United States stood together and adopted an attitude of adding insult to injury to the crisis.

Therefore, it seems that Britain's European policy of "coming from outside" the EU puts it in danger of being increasingly marginalized in EU affairs.

At the same time, the British government's European policy has also made domestic Euroscepticism increasingly intense.

According to the latest polls, more than 75% of British people want to hold a referendum to decide whether to remain in the EU.

During this meeting, Cameron told Barron that he had recently received a letter from some Conservative MPs, in which they believed that the price paid by Britain for EU membership was too high...

In Cameron's recent external stance, he also stated that he would not rule out deciding whether to leave Europe through a referendum...

Of course, Barron understands that Cameron's statement not only serves the purpose of appeasing the people and the "Eurosceptics" within the party, but also uses it to "blackmail" the EU into doing more in dealing with relations with Britain. Intention to give in.

However, Barron knows that after the impact of the European debt crisis, although the EU still cares about whether Britain remains in the EU, it will no longer make concessions to Britain's special requirements.

In response to Cameron’s recent statement, Krichbaum, Chairman of the European Committee of the German Bundestag, said in an interview:

"The UK intends to leave the EU, or to seek special treatment in some special areas, which is obviously not suitable for today's situation..."

In fact, both Barron and Cameron know one thing very well, that is, once Britain withdraws from the EU, the harm to Britain itself will be much greater than the harm to the EU.

And in terms of Barron's own interests, he does not want Britain to eventually choose to leave the EU due to a referendum like in previous lives.

After all, he has plans in various European countries, and the European market is also very important to his industry - Britain either chooses to be deeply bound to the United States, or it needs to rely on the European Union to have something outside the United States. As...

With experience in his previous life, Barron knew that choosing the former path would not bring much benefit to England, and would instead become a pawn of the United States.

But he also knows that if things continue as they are now, there is still a high probability that the outcome of Brexit will come true.

There are also reasons for this in British domestic politics - the current reality is that some members of the Conservative Party are actively clamoring for a referendum in order to cater to public opinion.

The Labour Party, which has become the opposition party, may also propose a referendum on whether Britain should stay in the EU before the next general election in order to split the Conservative Party.

As a result, although neither of the leaders of the two parties wants Britain to leave the EU, such a referendum is almost inevitable.

In addition, once it is determined that whether to leave the EU will be decided through a referendum, the United States will inevitably influence the British people in various ways, so as to achieve the goal of making Britain leave the EU and weakening Europe.

Barron will naturally try his best to avoid this situation.

In Barron's previous life, Britain finally voted to leave the EU in a referendum in 2016, and then after stumbling, it officially left the EU in 2020.

After Brexit, a deep barrier was formed between Britain and Europe, which not only affected its trade, but also pushed up the cost of living for its people, and blocked the flow of talents between it and Europe, which had a great negative impact on Britain.

At the same time, this result also forced Britain to get closer to America, but the way America acted later did not benefit Britain. Instead, it needed to support America's decision in many ways...

It has to be said that this was a bad move, and it was also caused by the chaotic political situation in Britain later.

Therefore, from now on, Barron will try his best to avoid this result.