Friday, June 17, 2016

"It comes down to an elemental choice: whether to restore the full self-government of this nation, or..."

It comes down to an elemental choice: whether to restore the full self-government of this nation, or to continue living under a higher supranational regime, ruled by a European Council that we do not elect in any meaningful sense, and that the British people can never remove, even when it persists in error.

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We are deciding whether to be guided by a Commission with quasi-executive powers that operates more like the priesthood of the 13th Century papacy than a modern civil service; and whether to submit to a European Court (ECJ) that claims sweeping supremacy, with no right of appeal.



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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, cited by Simon Wren-Lewis in Brexit and Democracy



from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/146057217467

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