At last EU summit, Cameron voices regret for Brexit

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Source: Reuters

Outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron told European Union leaders on Tuesday that Britain's future relations with the bloc it voted last week to leave could hinge on the EU's willingness to rethink free movement of workers.

Cameron, who resigned after losing a referendum last week on remaining in the EU, partly due to concerns about an influx of EU workers, told his last summit of the 28-nation bloc he hoped the United Kingdom would maintain as tight an economic and political relationship as possible with the EU.

"Britain will be leaving the European Union but we will not be turning our back on Europe," he told a news conference after a dinner at which he said many European partners expressed regret and voiced friendship for Britain.

EU officials and diplomats said the mood was coolly polite but there was a consensus around the table that Cameron had dug his own grave by taking part in decades of "Brussels-bashing". As Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker put it: "You should not be surprised if your citizens believe you."

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hoist on his own petard

yup

[geek tragedy]

1. Do the Brits realize how screwed they are?

They don't have current trade agreements with the US, China, Japan, Russia, or the EU.

[Kelvin Mace]

3. Apparently not.

Otherwise Cameron would just stand up and say, "Well, that was a very informative NON-BINDING vote, and we will certainly take your views into mind, but I think we will stay in the EU given the fact that the "Leave" side has pretty much admitted they lied and have no coherent plan that doesn't fatally wound the economy."

"Now who wants a pint, I'm buying!"

I mean what are they going to do? Vote him out of office?

[Wellstone ruled]

2. But it is all about EMPIRE!

Same garbage going on here at home,old White People believing in Ozzie and Harriet as well as Santa and the Easter Bunny. Face it England,your ass is grass and the World is the Lawn Mower. Good luck with that.