"Britain chose X". Hmm but would be interesting to know the "mercantile"/"nativist" proportions in Leave voters.https://twitter.com/DanielJHannan/status/764165708427194369 …
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Vast majority of EU legisl is Internal Mrkt leg. Main Driver of the EU Int Mrkt? UK. First proponent? Thatcher. Read your history
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all irrelevant. The British people were asked and never consented to giving away our Parliamentary sovereignty to the EU.
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EU law decided by EP (w UK MEPs) & Council (UK Gov). Anyway, no matter now. Let's c what Tory sovereign Parl does for average Brit
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yes, let's do that. And if they're no good, the people will turf them out of office. Do you understand that bit?
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Yes, I do understand basics of liberal democracy
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yet you appear not to see the simple difference between the EU and the British govt. 17 million people do.
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anyway, I'm off to bed now. Night.
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I do see difference. Just as I see difference between local councils and House of Commons. Diff levels of democracy. Good night
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The EEC was a political union as made very clear by both sides in the 1975 referendum. So you are talking tosh as usual.
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you didn't answer the Q, just moved to another. How accountable is the House of Lords?
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One answer: far less accountable than EU Council of Euro Parl. But that inconvenient truth matters not to Brexiters
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you need to read the comments trail. JHB talks about unaccountable institutions being reason for Brexit
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sorry didn't mean to sound brusque, what I meant was we already have unaccountable institutions eg HoL hence not a gd reason
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different argument altogether. Not one JHB was making earlier. Don't move the goalposts.
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Not true. You do not understand sovereignty or mandate.
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actually you are wrong. They were told in 1975 the direction the EU wanted to travel in, and if they could not be arsed to pay attention, they got the EU they voted for.
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