Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "Brexit: Can UK learn from Norway?" video.

The UK can learn that this is not what we want. The UK needs to leave the EU and become an independent country. Norway is a slave state of the EU.
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@momissimo4087 no Norway is forced to do as it is told by the EU. The UK is leaving the eu to regain its independence. What did he say, Norwegians are second class citizens of the EU, that sounds like slavery to me. Maybe Norwegians feel like pampered slaves, but slaves non the less, pets of the eurocrats.
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@maxmustermann5612 independence is not a matter of fun. But freedom from the EU is a joy, you should try it.
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@maxmustermann5612 and when did you stop beating your wife? It is ignorant to give away your freedom. Did you study how to do it or did it come naturally?
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@momissimo4087 independence from the EU means not being forced to obey it's rules and laws. It is our elected government that defines our laws, a government that is accountable to the UK people and can be removed from power by them. The EU is essentially undemocratic, but even if it were not, the power of the individual to influence the decisions made by government is diluted by the numbers involved in making that decision. Simply put the smaller the size of the organisation the greater the say of the individual. In the case of the EU this is irrelevant, as the the rules are set be unelected eurocrats and are only rubber stamped by the parliament.
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@momissimo4087 in other words you have abdicated your responsibility to someone who knows best. Saves you thinking for your self.
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@momissimo4087 silly question.
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@maxmustermann5612 no we are leaving, hard brexit.
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@PokePresto you have no say in the legislation that governs you. You can only request a change. Norway must do as it is told by the eu. You maybe pampered slaves, but you are slaves none the less.
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@momissimo4087 the UK joined the common market, none of the other organisations that it evolved into. It is you whonarevdeluded into thinking the EU is democratic. Sweden Poland Hungary Italy and Greece might disagree. If you are happy in your delusion, who am I to argue. But my choice is that I want nothing to do with the EU and sooner or later you will agree.
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@PokePresto try leaving and see how the eu treats you. Try ignoring are EU legislation.
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@momissimo4087 have they ever tried to leave? Have they ever tried to ignore EU legislation? Until they do how do they know if they are slaves? Is a prison a prison, if you never test the bars or try to escape. Does the slave understand he is a slave if he always does what he is told by his master. The test only comes when there is a disagreement. Maybe norwegians and naturally compliant and easily pleased.
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@josedourado3747 I represent myself, however many in the uk share my views, about 17.4 million judging by the result of the brexit referendum.
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@momissimo4087 I think most share my view that brexit means leaving the EU and becoming a sovereign independent country as if we had never joined. I have never suggested the UK has a deal like that of Switzerland or Norway, why would you think I did. We voted to leave the EU and leave means totally and completely.
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@momissimo4087 I don't recall that a quorum was required when we joined the common market, and I don't think we were consulted when the uk government signed the Maastricht Treaty. The turn out for the Brexit referendum was very high by UK standards and the leave vote won by a comfortable margin. Following the vote there were calls for a rerun by those who were to lazy or indifferent to vote in the referendum, mostly students I suspect. I am not concerned at the possibility of a second referendum, as I am confident of the same outcome as in the first. If some deal is cobble together by Mrs May, there is a danger the leave vote might be split by a referendum that asks three questions, Remain, Accept the Deal and Leave with no deal. But a simple remain or leave vote would most likely produce the same result as last time. There really is not the time for either a second referendum or a general election. A general election will never resolve the question as it covers so many other issues and there no guarantee that the new government would change brexit policy. Certainly if the EU are hoping a labour government will reverse the brexit vote they are deluding themselves. Labours policies are at odds with EU laws and rules, so they can only be carried out if the UK is outside the EU. Should a second referendum reverse the decision of the first, it will not be the end of the matter, since simply holding a second referendum has set the precedence for further referendums on the subject, maybe once every few years.
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@alejandroagudosanchez5183 the EU a super power!! HaHa. It might be a wannabe super power, but it is more likely to destroy itself before it gets there. Most empires become formidable before they become decadent, but the EU managed corrupt and decadent before it had any real power. The UK will be free of the EU.
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@alejandroagudosanchez5183 you have lost track of the original goal of brexit. The UK has decided to leave the EU as is its right. I do not agree that the UK will be forced to fall under the control of one of the other super powers, in fact it may well be able to play them off against each other, but the EU is arguable the worst of the "power blocks" if that epithet can even be applied to the EU. None of the other super powers make the same demands as the EU, the nonsense of its four freedoms. If ever the word freedom has been abused, this is probably the worst. If I shop at a super market, it does not give all the employees and their relatives the right to move in with me. It does not give the supermarket the right to decided where else I can shop, and it does not give the supermarket the right to control where and on what I spend my money or set the house rules that operate in my home, yet this is effectively what the EU demands of the member states. The EU is an international protection racket and the people of the UK have decided that will not be controlled or blackmailed any longer.
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@Luredreier Canada plus deal is about as close as the UK should be to the EU.
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