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Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought by kenneth on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:22AM (#26086731)
Belgium does a great job of proving that that doesn't quite always work.
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Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought by phaemon on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:39AM (#26087209)
Belgium was the country that recovered fastest from the 2008 financial crash...
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Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought by andruby on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:47PM (#26094548)
Yet we still pay a "crisisbijdrage" :P It's an additional tax on top of regular corporation tax.

EDIT: which seems to have been introduced in 1993 and never removed :-/

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Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought by oblio on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @06:25AM (#26087875)
There are a ton of counterexamples and things in real life are measured by ratios of good to bad, not by proving that one case is false, like in math.
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Re:The Queen has more power over British law than we thought by tremon on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @06:20AM (#26087839)
It's a great example of why cancel culture shouldn't be used to run a country.
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