The EU debate - Part II

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Fan of Stan, you need to construct complete sentences if you want Stan to take you seriously.

I don't think Lightning Stan wants to deal with anyone who can demolish
his comments with near-zero effort and no offensive language.
He could of course try to deflect from that with some attempted "banter" .
 
So... this may have been covered already but I'm not digging through the ****e to find it <laugh>

So... the EU has imposed on Ireland the order to recoup £11bn in back taxes from corporate giant Apple WHILE the Irish government is arguing against this AND actually backing Apple to pay less.

While there may be many criticisms the brexiteers (and the rest of us) have against the impotency of the EU machinery, you have to at least acknowledge this incident highlights how incompetent (or dare I say corrupt) individual governments can be when it comes to pandering to corporate giants. A disassociated EU has power to look at this and take a fair decision. Imagine if Ireland wasnt in the EU, Apple would've got away with it with the backing of the Irish government. And there's nothing to suggest the UK government is any different.

http://www.bakertillyinternational....ap-includes-ecs-anti-avoidance-proposals.aspx

1. So if the UK was not an EU member, it has benefited from adopting legislation
made elsewhere, without incurring the cost/speed/tedium of participating in its creation.

2. The UK is free to put in its own legislation that the EU either did not consider or
do not agree with.

Hmm ...
 
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To answer your question: Not if MPs believe in democracy.
So it'd be more democratic to use the Royal Prerogative to steam roller it through, than it would to use the correct procedure of a Commons debate to repeal the 1972 act which saw us join the EU?

Democracy when it suits eh....

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I'll rephrase to save time. Do you think there are enough MPs who would vote against Brexit for it to matter whether parliament has a vote or not?

I doubt there are enough MPs who would vote against to overturn the result.
However the number who would vote against does matter, in that it would
again show the degree of disconnect between Parliament and the electorate.
 
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I'll rephrase to save time. Do you think there are enough MPs who would vote against Brexit for it to matter whether parliament has a vote or not?
I don't know. It depends how many MPs realise that the referendum was a vote of the people and then more relevant than a vote of MPs.
 
That is an irrelevance. If the pound hasn't strengthened against them then the cost of goods bought from those countries will be the same or more expensive.

If the exchange rates are the same, then so are the import costs.
Exchange rates remaining constant does not equal exchange rates weakening.
 
I doubt there are enough MPs who would vote against to overturn the result.
However the number who would vote against does matter, in that it would
again show the degree of disconnect between Parliament and the electorate.

Or reflect the proportion of electorate that voted for/against.
In which case how would it show a disconnect?
 
I don't know. It depends how many MPs realise that the referendum was a vote of the people and then more relevant than a vote of MPs.
The MPs are probably more aware of the real consequences of Brexit than most voters, who were lied to and misled by by Leave and Remain spokespersons, as we all know now.
 
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