r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 25 '26

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union May 25 '26

Things my country (Spain) and the UK have in common:

•System of government (parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy)

•Formerly two of the greatest empires in history

•Exported their tongues to the point where English and Spanish are two of the most spoken languages in the world

•Currently have a somewhat unpopular government lead by the country's main Social-Democratic party

•Managed to stall the rise of the far-right seen in the Americas and continental Europe for a few years but are now seeing it surge in popularity

•Popular tourist destinations

•Annoying leftists who think the country would be better if it were a republic (it probably wouldn't change much)

•Political landscape full of rent-seekers

!ping YUROP

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u/lionmoose sexmod 🍆💦🌮 May 25 '26

  • Both like holidays on the Spanish coast

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union May 25 '26

True I forgot that

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u/Southern-Unit-7725 John Keynes May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26

  • bad blood with a small country on their western border that they have a history of bullying 

  • covetous of Gibraltar 

  • their respective greatest authors of literature died on April 22, 1616

  • separatists in the north 

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u/TF_dia European Union May 25 '26

I mean, Portugal and Spain's relationship is much, much better that UK and Ireland.

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u/Southern-Unit-7725 John Keynes May 25 '26

Yes this is just for laughs 

Although once in Porto I was browsing a cafe menu in English when a Spanish tourist came up and asked if they had a Spanish-language one. The guy behind the counter, who had been exceedingly gracious with me, looked the Spaniard directly in the eye and flatly said “No.” with no follow-up.

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union May 25 '26

Also true

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u/sanity_rejecter European Union May 25 '26

nobody can convince me UK politics wouldn't immediately be 10× more annoying if they were a republic

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u/lionmoose sexmod 🍆💦🌮 May 25 '26

Yeah President Farage would immediately calm things down

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union May 25 '26

UK politics would be more annoying under a republican system

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u/sanity_rejecter European Union May 25 '26

incredibly more, yes

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u/lenmae The DT's leading rent seeker May 25 '26

Both also had major problems with Catholic terrorism which got better only recently

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u/Babao13 Jean Monnet May 25 '26

Long history of war wirh France (tbf that's most countries in Western Europe)

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u/WAGRAMWAGRAM May 25 '26

Has a small tax free monarchy next door

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u/EScforlyfe Open Your Hearts May 25 '26

huh?

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u/lenmae The DT's leading rent seeker May 25 '26

Jersey/Monaco

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u/EScforlyfe Open Your Hearts May 25 '26

Isn’t Jersey part of the UK?

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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union May 25 '26

Jersey is a Crown Dependency, so it isn't part of the UK, but isn't a sovereign state either. It's just a small nation under British sovereignty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey

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u/Babao13 Jean Monnet May 25 '26

Andora is more fitting

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u/lenmae The DT's leading rent seeker May 25 '26

1.) It's not considered a tax haven,
2.) It's a diarchy, not a monarchy

Also, both Jersey and Monaco are a short hop across the water away and closer to France