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You'll have to ask the people who have been threatening gunboat action against foreign fisherman and have spent the best part of the last year threatening to te
by TheOtherHobbes 6y ago
You'll have to ask the people who have been threatening gunboat action against foreign fisherman and have spent the best part of the last year threatening to tear up any and all existing agreements with the EU.
Sovereignty apparently means whatever they want it to mean. If it means trashing the 80% of GDP devoted to services, strangling small businesses with expensive and time consuming red tape, trampling all over the goodwill that Europe used to have towards the UK by creating a hostile environment for EU citizens, and wasting everyone's time and money on vapid nationalistic posturing - then apparently that's "in the service of Britain."
Except it isn't. It's really only in the service of a corrupt, delusional, entitled, and frankly rather stupid rump aristocracy who saw their so-called sovereign power - and ability to evade taxes - being diminished by EU membership and decided to do something about it.
The idea that anyone could argue that low-rent cut and paste legal boilerplate is somehow evidence of national sovereignty is - really quite strange.
- jacquesm 6y agoI don't think there will be many statues of David Cameron once all the scores are tallied up.
- ben_w 6y ago> and ability to evade taxes I would say this claim has been debunked, but in fairness the debunk is talking about reality while many of the most famous Leave campaigners have explicitly claimed they want to leave because of what they incorrectly believe about what EU law does. https://fullfact.org/online/brexit-not-concealing-offshore-accounts/ https://fullfact.org/online/brexit-not-concealing-offshore-a...
- brigandish 6y ago> The idea that anyone could argue that low-rent cut and paste legal boilerplate is somehow evidence of national sovereignty is - really quite strange. Indeed, which is why no one is. You’ve also got a reply that shows you’re incorrect on the tax claims, and the part about trashing the economy could be pulled from the writings of Nostradamus it needs that much clairvoyance and doom-mongering. When I find I haven’t researched a topic properly and I’m demonising people based on malicious rumour and a mind reading ability I’m not even sure I’d want, that’s a good time to reconsider my opinion.