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Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "The EU cannot be held 'hostage' to Brexit crisis, says Macron" video.
The French have a hidden agenda. If they cannot trap the UK in a deal that will turn it into a vassal state, they do not want the UK to revoke the article 50 application. French ambitions for turning the EU into an empire, lead by the French, depends on the UK not being a member of the EU and getting in the way. The EU will therefore veto any long brexit delay. The last thing the EU wants is the UK electing Eurosceptic MEPs to the EU parliament. The continued UK membership of the EU would bring to an end EU federal ambitions.
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@groslait7814 which bit? The idea of an EU French empire lead by the new Napoleon Macron is terrifying. The French imperial ambitions will take the EU into unwise military adventures, maybe a war with russian and certainly mini wars in Africa.
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@stuartpaul9995 you have not been following the evolutionary plans for federal Europe, where it is intended that the federal government will not be required to seek permission for every action. The argument is that a veto of 27 member states paralyses decision-making. The intended recipient is a combination of majority voting (no veto) and decisions being made by the EU federal government based on pre agreed policy. With this system there is lots of scope for France or Germany to take control and for the rules to creep towards to complete federal dictatorship.
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@stuartpaul9995 the process from democracy to dictatorship is slow and stealthy. In the EU freedom will not be lost in the boom of a revolution but in the whimper of a slow erosion of rights and the pervasive intrusion of EU rules into the members states. The loss of freedom only becomes apparent when the will of the EU is challenged by a member state. The EU like to talk about the need to pool sovereignty, but this is a permanent loss as will become more obvious over time. As for getting rid of democracy, you already have. The member states now find themselves taking orders from unelected eurocrats, the state governments reduced to nothing more than local councils. The EU parliament does not make policy it just rubber stamps it. It increasingly resembles that other democratic institution, the Chinese parliament, more symbolic than practical.
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@stuartpaul9995 it is interesting that you think it is ok that it should be so easy to join the EU and so difficult to leave. If the UK is being torn apart, it is because the EU do not want the UK to leave. Our parliament is dead locked because it is proving difficult to pursued a sufficient number of MPs to commit treason and vote either for Mrs May's deal or a customs union. Both options would see the UK become a vassal state of the EU. The politicians refuse to give the UK a second referendum, fearing it will either decide to remain a full member of the EU or again vote for a hard brexit. Both options are unacceptable to the EU. The UK politician are just squirming trying to find a way to betray heir country by voting for a deal that will make the UK subject to EU rules. They just can't find a way to do it and keep their jobs, they do not have the words to explain their treachery to the British people. If this was not the case they would vote for a second referendum, setting the precedence for a third at a later date.
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@stuartpaul9995 it is far more likely that once their brexit usefulness is over a disillusioned RoI will find its self wanting to leave the EU. It will be interesting to see how the EU and the RoI cope with a No deal brexit. If the border remains open, it will show the backstop was nothing more than an EU contrived trap.
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@lucille4824 if you are going to make short pithy comments, you must at least state to whom you are responding.
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