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Re:Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament by dTal on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:29AM (#18919669)
You are not "just observing", you are creating straw positions and then being extremely disingenuous about it, to the point of outright trolling.

Why don't you just say what you bloody well mean, so we can discuss it properly, instead of making these lofty implications that don't pin you down to anything?

Re:Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament by asabjorn on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @08:11AM (#18920497)
The problem is if the people of England is correct in the assertion that it has given away too much Democratic power to unelected political bodies, and I am not the one to answer that. I am just saying dismissing their concerns seem a bit unproductive.
Re:Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament by mirimir on Thursday January 17, 2019 @06:00AM (#18929854)
Well, the EU government isn't really "unelected". It's just indirectly elected. Before 1913, for example, US state legislatures elected their state's senators. As I understand it, the original goal was to insulate senators somewhat from populist influence.

But yes, I get that this was a concern for Brexit supporters. I'm just arguing that Russia exploited it.