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Originally Posted by Smiž
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...
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Really, its quite simple. Either you believe in a sovereign nation state or you don't. Either we rule ourselves, or we permit ourselves to be ruled by an assembly of foreigners where our MEPs are a distinctly tiny minority. We have always managed to deal with global problems/developments as a sovereign nation, at least where they especially affect us - the British. In my view there are very very few global problems/developments which would affect us in real terms - especially now we do not have an Empire - and none that cannot be addressed in co-operation with other sovereign nations, when the moment comes.
You are supporting a federal state - a new Soviet Bloc (as it is dominated by The Left) - which the British people have not been consulted on as a fundamental issue.