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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

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To: sockmonkey

But they don’t need to — unlike the USA, the sovereignty of the UK lies with parliament not with the people


21 posted on 12/03/2018 5:10:39 AM PST by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: VietVet

As I recall, writing the words wasn’t especially difficult. But enforcing them was a cost paid in blood.


22 posted on 12/03/2018 5:25:50 AM PST by IronJack
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To: sockmonkey

The Brits need another revolution to throw these 1984 Orwellian statists out of office on their @$$es starting with that buck toothed skinny skag liar May.


23 posted on 12/03/2018 5:31:57 AM PST by ZULU (Jeff Sessions should be tried for sedition.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

The fricken Germans got two strikes already. Strike three and they are out oermanently.
They always were a bunch of damn socialists.
Read “Killing the SS” by O’Reilly.
Despite Nuremberg, the overwhelming number of National Socialists survived via
lifelines and German corporations. They only got a lot of the top people.

That trapdoor at Nuremberg should have been running day and night until every damn SS member was gone.

I knew reunification would create problems.


24 posted on 12/03/2018 5:37:58 AM PST by ZULU (Jeff Sessions should be tried for sedition.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

The fricken Germans got two strikes already. Strike three and they are out oermanently.
They always were a bunch of damn socialists.
Read “Killing the SS” by O’Reilly.
Despite Nuremberg, the overwhelming number of National Socialists survived via
lifelines and German corporations. They only got a lot of the top people.

That trapdoor at Nuremberg should have been running day and night until every damn SS member was gone.

I knew reunification would create problems.


25 posted on 12/03/2018 5:37:58 AM PST by ZULU (Jeff Sessions should be tried for sedition.)
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To: VietVet

>>>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:

Because they want to continue to trade with the EU post Brexit. Because they want air travel to occur post-Brexit. Because they don’t want to set up border controls between Ireland and Northern Ireland. Because there are many Brits living and working in other EU countries. Because there are many EU citizens living and working in the UK.


26 posted on 12/03/2018 6:37:33 AM PST by oincobx
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To: RoosterRedux

Bkmk


27 posted on 12/03/2018 6:43:42 AM PST by sauropod (Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
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To: buckalfa
Vote all you want.

Your OverLords will tell you the results.

In places like KKKalifornia, you may have to wait a few weeks to find out how you "voted".

Send a congratulations card to the DemoKKKrat on EleKKKtion Day, though, and beat the rush...

28 posted on 12/03/2018 8:26:10 AM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: oincobx
>>>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:

Because they want to continue to trade with the EU post Brexit. Because they want air travel to occur post-Brexit. Because they don’t want to set up border controls between Ireland and Northern Ireland. Because there are many Brits living and working in other EU countries. Because there are many EU citizens living and working in the UK.


Because they want to continue to trade with the EU post Brexit.

Trade will still occur... if the UK wants to buy EU stuff and vice-versa- it will happen. Capitalism wins here after new post-Brexit negotiations

Because they want air travel to occur post-Brexit.

You must be joking on this one... no way would air travel stop. I bet there are probable landing rights issues that would get easier when the EU controls are removed. Look how much effort Liverpool had to go through with EU rules just to get cruise ship rights for a second "EU-designated" port.

Because they don’t want to set up border controls between Ireland and Northern Ireland.

That's a tricky one, but I bet a lot of folks in NI wouldn't mind that.

Because there are many Brits living and working in other EU countries.

No-one is going to throw them out, like Spain doesn't want the income from all of the Brits living there.

Because there are many EU citizens living and working in the UK.

Again, there is no real talk of deporting working EU citizens from the EU. The bigger question may be ‘who are they paying taxes to?”

29 posted on 12/03/2018 8:37:35 AM PST by az_gila
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To: oincobx

Who is this “they” you are referring to? And why would Britain being independent of the EU change any of the things you mentioned? The USA is not part of the EU, yet we trade with the countries within the EU; our airlines land there and theirs land here; there are many US citizens living and working in EU countries, and many EU citizens (and subjects) living and working in the US. The only thing that I see that you mention that would change is that Britain would have to set up, or rather re-establish, the international border with Ireland, which seems a relatively minor thing to me. The other things would be as much to the EU’s interest to continue in a positive and friendly way as it would be in Britain’s. But as I said, I am not a British Subject, so I don’t get a say. By the way, are you British, or an EU citizen?


30 posted on 12/04/2018 10:58:59 AM PST by VietVet
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To: IronJack

“... writing the words wasn’t ... difficult, but enforcing them was a cost paid in blood.”

So you think the EU would go to war to prevent Britex? And whose side do you think the US would be on?


31 posted on 12/04/2018 11:02:32 AM PST by VietVet
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To: RoosterRedux

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

It took more than one leader to make the original Declaration. And a great many to make it stick.


32 posted on 12/04/2018 11:05:49 AM PST by VietVet
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To: VietVet

>>>The USA is not part of the EU, yet we trade with the countries within the EU; our airlines land there and theirs land here; there are many US citizens living and working in EU countries, and many EU citizens (and subjects) living and working in the US.

Those things came about as a part of negotiations and deals.


33 posted on 12/04/2018 11:07:01 AM PST by oincobx
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To: VietVet

The EU is a paper tiger with rubber teeth. It wouldn’t dare go to war.

If it did, with DJT as our president, we would come down on the Brexit side. With an Obungler and a Demorat Congress, it would be the globalists.


34 posted on 12/04/2018 11:50:43 AM PST by IronJack
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To: oincobx
>>>The USA is not part of the EU, yet we trade with the countries within the EU; our airlines land there and theirs land here; there are many US citizens living and working in EU countries, and many EU citizens (and subjects) living and working in the US.

Those things came about as a part of negotiations and deals.


I'll simply repeat my two previous comments -

Because they want to continue to trade with the EU post Brexit.

Trade will still occur... if the UK wants to buy EU stuff and vice-versa- it will happen. Capitalism wins here after new post-Brexit negotiations

Because they want air travel to occur post-Brexit.

You must be joking on this one... no way would air travel stop. I bet there are probable landing rights issues that would get easier when the EU controls are removed. Look how much effort Liverpool had to go through with EU rules just to get cruise ship rights for a second “EU-designated” port.

35 posted on 12/04/2018 6:06:00 PM PST by az_gila
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