Posted on 07/05/2016 3:47:54 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The dust of conflict has not yet settled and surely it will take some time for it to settle, for the simple reason that many people had not even been aware that we as a nation no longer ruled ourselves. We had our own Parliament – of course we ruled ourselves. Alas, that simply was not true. We were under the dominion of a foreign body called the EU, whose laws pre-empted our laws, whose Courts were superior to our Courts.
It all happened by stealth, by bits and pieces, by treaties like Maastricht, so that the man-in-the-street hardly noticed that his liberties were being eroded piece by piece. Regulations appeared from Brussels and suddenly they were law. Companies were bound down with useless and time-consuming red tape, and there was no recourse. There was nobody to appeal to. We were under the dominion of a body that could simply demand from us any amount of money that they chose.
Not what we as a nation chose, but what Herr Juncker and his 27 Commissars chose. It is useless for the Remainders to argue that it was a lie to say that we were and are presently paying into the EU some £350 million a week, since we get some of it back as a rebate, since these figures can clearly be looked up on the Internet.
Let us be clear, then. We are taxed, by our own government, we are taxed by our local authority, and in addition we have given a blank cheque to the EU to tax us for whatever they deem to be a budget to support their overweening bureaucracy. Bit by bit our liberties were taken away.
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Ping.
And the world citizen in the WH.
The Brits rejected taxation without representation. Imagine that.
They rejected giving up their identity, too.
We’ll see what the Scotts and Irish do. Weird groups...they want their identities, but support a group which steals them and their money. That’s the definition of insanity.
Obama ONLY has power because of the LYING,
duplicitous, backstabbing GOP.
From ObamaCARE to ObamaTRADE to Iran NUKEs,
the GOP is twistedly treasonous.
Cantor them all or DIE, America.
If the people of this country cannot see what is and has been happening right here in America, we will be gobbled up into the “One world government”. Electing Hitlary will only put us another step closer to be totally dominated by the outside world and our freedoms will be gone forever. All American’s need to heed the warning signs. Guess to many of them are playing with their cell phones to see what is happening.
We need TRUMP more now than ever.
Thanks
350M per week (worth more than that in American $)! Holy crap! He’ll, it sounds like the EU is the Mafia! For what might I ask??
Actually, the Irish get a lot more out than they put in. The Scots don’t though because they are part of the UK with the money going the other way.
Non-member Norway pays in for its association. No representatoon.
Thanks!
The two are very similar: from the two matrix bull dykes (Merkel/ValJar) to the two gloating buffoons (Juncker/BO’B), along with all the facts in the middle.
Contrary to the impression this gives, there was no law emanating from the EU to the formulation of which the UK was not a party through its seat on the Council of Ministers; scarcely a EU regulation to the implementation and enforcement of which the UK did not contribute through its membership of the Commission - indeed many of them originated from UK initiatives, and many working for the Commission are seconded from British Government departments. The UK opted out most of those - the Euro, the Schengen border-free zone, etc which it judged not to be in its own interests. And of course there were many areas of policy, including some of the most important - defence, the economy, taxation etc, which remained wholly outside the EU's jurisdiction.
British Sovereignty was thus never surrendered in toto, as this article and its like imply, to some alien entity entirely distinct from itself. It was sovereignty shared, not sovereignty lost. There is a big difference between shared sovereignty and sole sovereignty, but no bigger than the difference between shared sovereignty and sovereignty wholly forfeited in the way claimed.
Indeed, one criticism that can legitimately be made of British behaviour in the EU is, curiously enough, timidity: the British rarely exercised the clout within the EU that its size and economy naturally gave it. It was always within the UK's power to steer the EU to a far greater extent in its own preferred direction: but instead it preferred too often to be reactive while others led, and that very easily morphed into a public perception (mostly illusory) of powerlessness and lost sovereignty.
Texas could be next folks!
Obviously 52% of UK voters disagree with you.
Not necessarily. I neither said nor implied that the outcome was the wrong decision.
Well, 52% thought UK sovereignty had been sufficiently lost or watered-down that “leave” was the answer.
There’s no way of knowing, but I very much doubt whether the sovereignty issue was the main deciding factor in the late swing to ‘leave’
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