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Originally Posted by Gregory Lauder-Frost
Britain has, for centuries, been a great trading nation, and with the entire world. At the same time we have had numerous understandings and treaties assisting us in those enterprises.
But we should not abandon our sovereignty or even compromise it - as we have surely done - and join a federal state without a full referrendum on the subject. The situation we now find ourselves in is one where our politicians have actually acted against the national interest and without and effective and very clear mandate.
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I believe that we ought to remain in the European Union, simply for the same reason you state: to maintain 'our' sovereignty, or at least as much of it as possible. If I offered you a choice between having sovereignty stolen away through global problems/developments, and willingly pooling it in order to better control those same things, which would you choose?
Also, if there is no mandate for the EU, and that is good reason not to support it, do you also ask that the UK have a mandate to exist? I mean, I wouldn't want to put
that to the vote...