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Re:Theresa May: UK must leave European single market by literallycancer on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @08:51AM (#13417457)
The distribution of seats in the EP clearly favors smaller countries. The smallest country, Malta, has one seat for every 70,227 people. Germany has one seat for every 838,789 people.[1]

Even if Germany, France, the UK, Italy and Spain decided to vote together, the others can still win a vote against them. (Also, the EP is split according to political ideologies, not nationalities, so this scenario is unrealistic.)

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apportionment_in_the_European_...

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Re:Theresa May: UK must leave European single market by NetStrikeForce on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @08:57AM (#13417497)
With all due respect to coldtea (heresy! :)), but it is like the most hardcore Brexiters know very little about the EU.

Who's to blame? Hard to say, but no one's free of guilt here.

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