After seven years of Brexit talks, Europe has emerged as the clear winner

Re:After seven years of Brexit talks, Europe has emerged as ... by lmm on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @06:19PM (#35062780)

That's how it was presented to the British public though. "Oh, the EU wants us to do this, our hands are tied, we can't do anything". No system with a smidgeon of accountability to the British public would ever have kept disgraced former disgraced former MP Peter Mandelson in a position of power.

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Re:After seven years of Brexit talks, Europe has emerged as ... by ttepasse on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @07:50AM (#35068357)

Mandelson was nominated by the Government of the United Kingdom to be EU Commissioner, as part of the first Barroso Commission. Presumably the nominating HM Government is not accountable to the British Public.

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Re:After seven years of Brexit talks, Europe has emerged as ... by lmm on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @03:59PM (#35074640)

If you put enough layers of indirection in then the accountability that theoretically exists becomes so weak as to be meaningless.

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