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Re: Brexit Makes it through Commons

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Fri, 10 Jan 20 12:14 PM | 19 view(s)
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Actually, I wonder if the EU will survive, as the many countries that were on the teat of UK and German contributions find that the flow is a lot less than it was.

The EU organism may consume itself rather than reform in the way it needs to.

They wouldn't listen to Britain when we were in the EU. So now they have an imperial ambition without the cashflow to support it. They will be better off cutting their cloth to a goal they can afford, like making the EU a common market again.




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Brexit Makes it through Commons
By: Cactus Flower
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Fri, 10 Jan 20 12:09 PM
Msg. 33677 of 54959

Now only the Lords and the Queen to go.

The will of the people has prevailed. But only after removing the least honorable parliament and speaker (in the UK parliament, a neutral arbiter of process) I have ever witnessed.

The point is not that we are leaving the EU. It is that we honour the results of referenda, even if they are not what we wish them to be.

I wasn't altogether passionate either way when the referendum occurred. I could imagine various paths forward, even if one of them was not continuing with what had become an imperial project. But the response of the EU and the Remainers to the result was just appalling. And that meant that thereafter, like others, I wanted to leave at any cost.

Now, I hope they manage to negotiate a constructive deal that gives folks on both sides parts of what they want, without conceding the control of UK sovereignty which the EU was demanding.


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