Private / Public Schools and Brexit

[jellycat1]

I read the Education boards a lot as we are planning to put our two sons through the pre-prep/prep/public school route. We haven't decided exactly where, but it will either be day Prep in SW London - so on the crazy 7/8+ bus, or a Surrey / Berkshire area day/boarding prep to 13.
My question is to current parents - what is your sense of the effect, if any, of Brexit on the demand for places at the selectives / super selectives? Do you think it may soften demand a bit or have no noticeable effect? We are overseas currently and all my friends' kids are older, so I feel a bit in the dark about it all - but then aren't we all...! Sigh...!
I know nobody has the answer right now but just interested in your thoughts really and what you hear in your schools.
TIA.

"Your comment there was just about the weirdest non sequitur I have ever come across on Mumsnet. ."

It would most probably be if said comment was directed at you only that it wasn't . . .

"Millions of Europeans apparently thought the better of themselves and got over their alleged EU ambivalence last time they went to the polls. And Irish people favour EU membership to the tune of about 85% last time I checked. Ireland, incidentally, somehow figured out how to trade with the rest of the world, including the US, while still a member of the EU."

Have they really thought better or were they bullied into submission - that is the question! The French and Dutch three years earlier delivered similar results in their referendum and were made to vote again by the EU until the "right" results to the EU were achieved. We are seeing the same old tricks being tried here at Brexit but alas, the people have awoken and are able to show the EU where the door is. The writings are on the wall - just look at the latest German and Italian national elections!

Just makes you wonder, doesn't it, that the Irish are able to negotiate trade deals with the USA and the rest of the world whilst still a EU member, what's so difficult for the UK doing the same outside of the EU? This is not to suggest in any way that the British are cleverer than the Irish, far from it and I should know better having being educated by Irish teachers since the age of six or seven and throughout my teenage years.

The days of the EU are numbered!

Who said Ireland negotiated trade deals with the rest of the world?

Ireland takes advantage of EU membership and EU trade deals to trade with the test of the world. When the EU and India sign a trade agreement Ireland will have even more scope for trade and educational and professional partnerships. India has already indicated serious reservations about a deal with the UK.

www.politico.eu/article/india-no-rush-to-do-bilateral-trade-deal-with-post-brexit-britain-commonwealth-eu-customs-union-external-tariffs/

"India in no rush to do a trade deal with post-Brexit Britain"

"India’s high commissioner to the UK says agreeing a free-trade deal with the EU is ‘very important,’ while a deal with the UK will take some time."