But I also think that not speaking a common language does indeed make campaigning for any particular issue more difficult.
It's a trade-off. Not having a say in Europe doesn't necessarily mean you don't have to comply, which will become painfully obvious in the near future.
I'd be in favour of dissolving it back to counties with a senate.
The south never does anything for us up North.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/23/uk-budget-d...
Shrugs, Brexit is going to be interesting if the impact on the financial and legal services is as large as predicted.
That's a rather ignorant comment.
The 'Great Repeal' bill as it was called was/is - I lose track of where it is in the law process at the moment - effectively did/will do a 'mv' of all EU regulation that the UK was beholden to over its own UK laws and when this has to be done before the UK leaves and will probably be done sooner.
Then the parliament will cherry pick the bits they want to keep and update/change/remove those that we do not.
> I'm assuming you mean the 30% who actually voted to leave?
Actually while the Brexit vote to leave was significantly more than 30%, the past polls that have asked a more specific question of sovereignty/law making by the EU commission that seems to override UK Law is significantly larger than the amount that voted to leave.
Voting Leave != Does not like EU Commission making Laws by people the UK did not and cannot vote out.
> Voting Leave != Does not like EU Commission making Laws by people the UK did not and cannot vote out.
And this betrays a very poor understanding of EU law making while hiding behind the shallow notion of who is elected and ejected on the behest of voters. The UK's political system is not exactly setup to satisfy that notion even after Brexit, since voters have no real choices & accountability is not seriously practiced. Bad politicians even after breaching ministerial code are simply reintroduced after a brief periods in the naughty box. Some are even rewarded for lying by getting high ranking cabinet jobs. Nothing so hollow as Brits handwringing about EU democratic processes while ignoring the problems with its own system.
There are very few of those. One of the problems people kept banging on about is that the UK "copper bottoms" any EU regulation, making it more onerous than it could be, when they add it to UK law.
Fancy naming a few laws that 'we' don't like?
If we want to trade and have anything to do with the EU, we're going to have to follow their laws and regulations whether we're in the EU or not.