h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi Sprout,

When you've got a minite can you email us at '[email protected]' - your Entry on Influencing The European Union went live on the front page this morning (congratulations!) but the automated email generator that lets you know this has conked out for some reason. If you email us, we can then email you your official 'congratulations' note manually.

Hi - no worries about the congratulations mail - have had more than a few over the years! Thanks for making the effort to pop round though.



sprout

Very good of you Sprout. Please accept our congratualtions here then!

Hi Sprout. I'm doing some final polishing on "What are the options for the UK outside of the EU?". I'm puzzled by this sentence:

"Leaving the EU would start negotiations in which the EU would be negotiating with 26 other countries. "

Did you mean "the UK would be negotiating with 26 other countries"?

Yes, that's right. Brain fade.

sprout

And how about this?

"up north you have the preservation of an essentially social democratic model – no university tuition fees, prescription fees etc. On top of this or perhaps because of this, independence or a maximum level of devolution are becoming ever more popular in Scotland, and the EU is relatively more popular. On the other, you have a country that is going down an Atlantic model of low tax and corresponding levels of public service, via austerity cuts. "

Is Scotland the country that is going down an Atlantic model? Or did you intend to say "on the other hand, in England you have a country..."

The latter.

sprout