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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
... and there's the rub. I've said several times before, we may all look alike but we don't think alike. Brits are the product of their environment, culture and history. Our legal and constitutional order is operated very differently from that in most of Europe and all of this frames what underlies our thoughts, actions and reactions.
Not all UK MEPs are of the Farage/Hannan kind; but the European MEPS, I sense, tend to isolate the UK MEPs, probably because none of them support federalisation. The other MEPs, who don't think like us, support federalisation, none the least because then their parliament trumps ours and everyone else's. Nothing democratic about that.
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They isolate the
fringe MEPs - because they
are out of touch and not prepared to work with their fellow MEPs (same as the fringe MEPs from every other EU country). The hard working British MEPs are respected and part and parcel of decisions made. Just Joe public in the UK rarely hear about them, because the press prefer the noisy outsiders.
One example, Farage bleating about the fisheries policy changes nothing. Same big 5 UK industrial fishing companies will still control most of the fishing in UK waters after Brexit, so the small sustainable independents will continue to struggle.