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Not at all because it’s a fallacy. EU is not some 3rd party, it’s made up of its members and having your laws aligned to EU laws mean your laws are aligned to t
by mrtksn 4y ago
Not at all because it’s a fallacy. EU is not some 3rd party, it’s made up of its members and having your laws aligned to EU laws mean your laws are aligned to the laws laws created by you.
EU is not some Belgian club you subscribe to, Brussels is just a location for meeting with your partners. People who make the EU laws were British, among others.
EU is useful when you want to have interoperability and resolve conflicts before they happen.
So essentially, if you like to have flying cars that can travel across all the Europe, your people posted in Brussels come to agreement with the others on the flux capacitor fuel types and pass an EU law. Then your people at home pass a domestic law that follows the EU law and you end up with standardized flux capacitor fuels.
As a result being in EU gives you the say on what suits you so the EU law be designed that way. When out of the EU, EU does it’s own thing and if you like to sell flying cars to EU, you need to comply to their flux capacitor requirements anyway(AKA Brussels effect). That’s why Brexit made trade with EU so bureaucratic.
- lmm 4y agoThat's how it was presented to the British public though. "Oh, the EU wants us to do this, our hands are tied, we can't do anything". No system with a smidgeon of accountability to the British public would ever have kept disgraced former disgraced former MP Peter Mandelson in a position of power.
- ttepasse 4y agoMandelson was nominated by the Government of the United Kingdom to be EU Commissioner, as part of the first Barroso Commission. Presumably the nominating HM Government is not accountable to the British Public.
- lmm 4y agoIf you put enough layers of indirection in then the accountability that theoretically exists becomes so weak as to be meaningless.