Comments by "Philip B" (@philipb2134) on "We need to talk about Brexit | FT Film" video.

 dennisemanuelsson7136 If you leave a club, you lose club privileges. It's that simple. Britain imposed sanctions on itself.
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 @davidsummer8631 UK's agriculture has suffered considerably from the lack of immigrant labour; so has the NHS. A Bulgarian nurse has been replaced by no nurse... Where's the benefit?
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@archiebald4717 alternatively, because the governance is better aware than the electorate of the immense damage an exit from EU would cause Jingoistic politicians invited British fishing communities to approve Brexit, which they have done under a notion of regaining sovereignty over their marine resources. Alas for them, the catch in British waters largely consists of species the British public won't eat. If these British fishers want to export fresh seafood to the Continent, they can no longer do so under expedited customs clearance. Seafood delivered four days later is no longer as fresh as overnight shipments. Classic own-goal by the voting fisher communities.
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 @denislejeune9218 Asserting economic independence in an increasingly interdependent world, is anachronistic (at best.)
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@linguistengineer588 We might guess, but we can not reliably plumb the breadth and depths of Putin's insanity. The fear he inspires has brought Sweden - staunchly neutral since Napoleon was exiled to Elba - to join NATO with strong popular support.
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@SideQuestStories An interesting posit. Care to back that up with data? Feelings don't count.
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dennisemanuelsson7136 if you remember your history (a dubious notion at best), very few EU members joined the Union on the basis of a public vote. You can't trick people into voting for something that never had been on the ballot.
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@georgelazenby3607 PRChina urinated on the international treaty (lodged with the UN) under which it undertook to respect Hong Kong's rights and freedoms. The Politburo's Republic of China suffered few harms from so harshly violating the handover treaty.
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@gothicgolem2947 Sovereignty is fun; it also can come with costs. If you grasp the object of your desire, remember that this hand can grasp nothing else. Brexit voters forgot about the /else.
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May I suggest that Napoleon's continental blockade was an earlier example of self-inflicted sanctions?
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 @gothicgolem2947 How did that work out?
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 @hiya2793 Your opening statement is wildly inaccurate. I won't call it a lie, because likely you don't know better.
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@keepdancingmaria changing targeted species won't necessarily be possible, let alone practical. First, the resource might not be there; even if so, it can involve expensive changes in equipment to yield lower-value catches. Fishermen don't set out for the romance of it, they need make a living. I don't have the motivation to spend the time to educate you on the fishing industry, nor to share my experience of British culinary habits.
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