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Old 08-05-2018, 20:46   #2630
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Re: Brexit discussion

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Originally Posted by OLD BOY View Post
That's not going to happen. There is no point leaving the EU in economic terms unless we can forge our own trade deals.

I, too, voted for joining the Common Market back in the day, but the Europeans made a complete hash of it and instead of federalising and democratising it, they have created an unelected bureaucracy which it seems to me could end up being something uncomfortably similar to a Communist state.
Unelected apart from the European Parliament and European Council. The third arm, the commission is the civil service but it’s leadership is elected by the parliament (elected by us) and the council (heads of state and so elected by us)
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