Assuming we remain

[darkcloudsandrainstorms]

Do you think the EU will punish us as an example to other member states.

Or

Throw a huge party with fireworks and Beethoven’s Ninth.

Don’t be so silly rslsys. What about the EU’s behaviour up until now makes you think that they will do more damage than we are prepared to do to ourselves?

It's not Holland. It's the Netherlands. Knowing what your neighbours call themselves is just polite. And indicates you know a bit about them. Rather than rehashing bollocks you read on Leave.EU or wherever.

If we remain, they are going to kick the shit out of us

this is the kind of ignorant attitude that got us here in the first place.

If we remain, they are going to kick the shit out of us

Why would they do that? That isn’t how the EU treats it’s members.

It's not Holland. It's the Netherlands.

Funnily enough this was in the papers at the weekend;

"Dutch government ditches Holland to rebrand as the Netherlands."
"As part of new strategy, the Netherlands will be official name at Eurovision in May."
"The Dutch government has decided to stop describing itself as Holland and will instead use only its real name – the Netherlands – as part of an attempted update of its global image."
"The national rebranding, which has been signed up to by business leaders, the tourist board and central government, will be rolled out later this year."

www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/04/holland-the-netherlands-dutch-government-rebrand

Funny because I have relatives in the Netherlands but they refer to their home as Holland...

Do they live in the Holland provinces?

They live in Haarlem

So North Holland then

?

I was asking whether they live in one of the two provinces in the Netherlands that make up Holland proper - north Holland and south Holland. It might not be the reason why they refer to their home as Holland instead of the Netherlands, but equally it could be