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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by zeveb on Friday June 24, 2016 @03:37PM (#11972777)
> The EU will make the UK pay a price for Brexit, and rightly so, otherwise all member states would leave and still enjoy the free movement of goods and people.

So it was always about power, then? Why shouldn't all states enjoy the free movement of goods & people without giving up their sovereignty?

The EU should have required only as much authority as it absolutely needed; instead it demanded too much.

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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by masklinn on Friday June 24, 2016 @04:03PM (#11972991)
> Why shouldn't all states enjoy the free movement of goods & people without giving up their sovereignty?

Free movement between sovereign entities always entails yielding some amount of sovereignty loss, you can't have free movement of goods and people between two cities if there isn't a supra-city structure.

> The EU should have required only as much authority as it absolutely needed; instead it demanded too much.

That's just your opinion, I do not agree with it.

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Re:Doom, Gloom and Unease: London's Tech Scene Reacts to Brexit by Tomte on Saturday June 25, 2016 @07:44AM (#11976029)
The leave campaign was explicitly and to a very large part about not having free movement of people.

They just want to keep free movement of goods and services.

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