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Brexit Defenestrated — But Is It Doomed?
American Spectator ^ | Jed Babbin

Posted on 12/03/2018 3:33:24 AM PST by RoosterRedux

Given all that Theresa May has given away, rejection of her deal with the EU will save the day. And that’s where the U.S. comes in.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s agreement to withdraw from the European Union may not be the worst deal ever, but it’s a close second to former president Obama’s nuclear weapons deal with Iran.

By the terms of her withdrawal agreement May has literally thrown the concept of Brexit out the window. Brexit was supposed to end the EU’s control over the UK’s laws, regulations, trade relations, and the other aspects of power that make a nation sovereign.

May’s agreement accomplishes none of that but still requires the UK to pay the EU a lump-sum alimony of about £39 billion (about $50 billion) to cover its supposed debts to the EU through 2020.

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The EU, through the treaties creating it (and since by accretion), has enormous powers inconsistent with the sovereignty of its members. The European Commission enacts laws and regulations across all 28 nation-members. Its courts — the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights — enforce the Commission’s laws, regulations, and such to ensure they are applied uniformly throughout the EU’s twenty-eight member nations.

Never mind that the United Kingdom has its own Prime Minister, parliament, and courts: the EU can overrule them and subordinates UK law and regulation to its own. Because the UK’s courts have to abide by the laws and jurisprudence of the EU, its laws and regulations have been written to conform with those of the EU.

It’s not for nothing that the UK has been unable to deport dozens of terrorists. EU law — and thus UK law — prevents it.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


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1 posted on 12/03/2018 3:33:24 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

A glimpse of our future one world overlords?


2 posted on 12/03/2018 3:43:05 AM PST by buckalfa (I was so much older then, but I'am younger than that now.)
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To: RoosterRedux

I had to stop reading when I saw the word Iran. Bottom line is the UK was never going to honor Brexit despite the will and votes by their citizens.


3 posted on 12/03/2018 3:53:26 AM PST by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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To: RoosterRedux

"...defenestration... trowin out da window"<"p>

4 posted on 12/03/2018 3:58:21 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: RoosterRedux

If Brexit is doomed, so is the UK.


5 posted on 12/03/2018 4:00:26 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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To: RoosterRedux

6 posted on 12/03/2018 4:07:17 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: RoosterRedux

What this really means - Germany has finally subjugated, and become the owner of the New Northern German Isles, and the slavemaster of it’s people.


7 posted on 12/03/2018 4:07:20 AM PST by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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To: mewzilla
I think it's May and her deal that are doomed. How anyone could have expected May, a devout remainer, to negotiate a good Brexit deal is beyond me? Her heart's just not in it.

The Brits outside of London still want a hard Brexit.

It may be Boris who gets it for them.

8 posted on 12/03/2018 4:09:56 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

The Germans have been trying to destroy Europe for 100+ years.They’ve come close to succeeding twice...but in having obtained a stranglehold on the EU,an entity that Stalin would have applauded (and envied),I believe Germany has finally hit on the right formula.


9 posted on 12/03/2018 4:11:11 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: RoosterRedux

Wonder if UK May now gets a portrait of herself in the Halls of the 4th Reich, or if it just winds up being a temporary photo above a urinal at the 4th Reich headquarters?


10 posted on 12/03/2018 4:12:17 AM PST by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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To: RoosterRedux

I think that Europe has been slaughtering its best on its battlefields for generations. Whatever is left, they don’t allow anywhere near a position of power.


11 posted on 12/03/2018 4:13:36 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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To: Gay State Conservative

And, somewhere in Hell, Hitler is smiling.


12 posted on 12/03/2018 4:14:09 AM PST by mewzilla (Is Central America emptying its prisons?)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Here's what BoJo said back in 2016...
The pro-Brexit Tory MP [Boris Johnson] said both the Nazi leader [Hitler] and Napoleon had failed at unification and the EU was "an attempt to do this by different methods".

Shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn, who backs Remain, said the comparison was "offensive and desperate".

Tory Leave campaigner Jacob Rees Mogg said Mr Johnson's analysis was correct.

Source: BBC


13 posted on 12/03/2018 4:14:37 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: sockmonkey

The UK Government will not honour Brexit. I hate it when countries are conflated with their government, not its people.


14 posted on 12/03/2018 4:19:53 AM PST by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: RoosterRedux
One of my favorite “quips” regarding Brexit came from Jacob Rees Mogg after EU leaders made a particularly insulting statement about Britain and Brexit. He said (and I think that this is an exact quote) “a club that kicks you in the shins as you try to leave probably wasn't worth joining in the first place”.
15 posted on 12/03/2018 4:24:04 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: RoosterRedux

Well, I’m not a British Subject, so I don’t get a say, but why does the British Government need to negotiate a deal to exit the EU? Just tell them:

“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bonds which have connected them with another... . We, therefore,... do, in the name and by the Authority of the good People of [Britian], solemnly Publish and Declare...that all political Connection between them and the [European Union] is and ought to be totally dissolved.”

What’s so hard about that?


16 posted on 12/03/2018 4:33:14 AM PST by VietVet
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To: Doogle

From the Latin ‘ fenestra’ Meaning window. Brother Claude taught us all the cool Latin word and sayings.


17 posted on 12/03/2018 4:39:31 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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To: RoosterRedux

According to Martin Armstrong, the independence cycle worldwide has not picked yet.

I am rooting for Brexit.


18 posted on 12/03/2018 4:44:02 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: VietVet

It takes a leader with the guts to make that statement...and mean it.


19 posted on 12/03/2018 4:55:00 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
Th Nigel Farage Show: 2nd December 2018
20 posted on 12/03/2018 5:09:11 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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