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nauseus

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  1. You miss the fact that, while Farage was a leader of one of the two main Leave campaigns, it would have not made a difference. He would not have succeeded in getting a second go. Up to you.
  2. Probably because few considered it relevant because what one man (Farage) said would not alter anything. If the vote had been remain (by any margin) then it would have been accepted, without any complaint, by the vast majority of leavers. We were ready for that. Conversely, and as we have seen, there has been non-stop whining from the remainers for nearly 7 long years already!
  3. I didn't forget. But the UK fleet was cut nearly in half after the CFP took effect.
  4. Same as I think joining was the most ill thought-out, self-harming, illegal and disastrous act that any UK government has implemented in the last 52 years, after the most blatant lies were distributed by its supposed leader of the day. The UK's "power and rights" in the EU were steadily waning after Thatcher, with opt-outs and rebates already largely bartered away by Major, Blair and Cameron. In 2015, the EU was pushing for its own army, finance ministry and foreign ministry, and well on its way to achieving the dream of creating a single European super state, whereby the UK would have eventually become a mere vassal province. Should the UK rejoin, then all these ambitions and dangers would resurface. I agree that by rejoining the UK would be in an even weaker position than before. But but I also think that If your children are determined enough, then they will still be able to move and work in the EU or elsewhere.
  5. The UK fishing industry was clobbered when we joined the EEC.
  6. Treaties are agreements and EU Treaty Law is direct law in any EU member state. Laws that remain on the books and affect fishing need to go, just as all the regulations which hurt small UK businesses.
  7. And you complain about your questions not being answered? 555
  8. The Republicans have suggested exactly where they want to find cuts.
  9. Yes. It's a pity the Democrats don't do more cudgeling to cap the debt too.
  10. Both parties are guilty - not just one: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/business/economy/federal-debt-history.html
  11. That would require an elaborate post.
  12. What is quite remarkable (but sadly expected) is that remainers refuse to concede that the British Parliament lost absolute sovereignty once the Treaty of Rome was signed and that sovereignty was significantly further eroded with each new treaty, regulation, directive and decision.
  13. Article 50 was triggered in March 2017. The rest was a cluster.
  14. I'm sorry....but you might want to read that again.
  15. I'd love to know where you got those numbers.
  16. Perhaps then, if we were allowed to leave fully and completely, that indictor might be more easily identifiable and clear?
  17. From your own link: The UK has been in a losing minority more often over the past few years In recent years the UK has been more often on the losing side of these votes. Research by Dr Hagemann and Professor Hix shows that between 2009 and 2015 the UK voted against the majority 12.3% of the time, compared to 2.6% of the time between 2004 and 2009. Why not admit that since QMV came into use and since the UK lost most of its vetoes, then the trend has been that UK interests were increasingly overridden?
  18. All these things are ready to go anyway. Scapegoating in advance?
  19. Yes....and now we can see the detritus. There was no referendum before Heath signed us in and there's a good reason for that.
  20. Bypassed more and more in recent years by QMV. Why not dig up something useful?
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