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I remember it well. Business loved it.

It was exciting to join the EC - a trading bloc, edging towards some common practices such a freedom of labour movement. This never became a problem for some (not a problem for me) until the Eastern European countries joined what had become the EU; of course they were all taught English not French or German so here they came. Again, not a problem for me, but many people didn't like this immigration; they may have liked it more had the UK guvmin behaved responsibly by putting money and incentives into infrastructure and housing and health - though the financial crisis did nothing to help the guvmin.

As for De Gaulle, the yesterday's man - an ungrateful soab who could never live down that the UK came to his country's rescue twice in as many decades - from the hegemonic Germans, of course.

Now Macron's buckling under to the Germans by signing a treaty that uses German strength to keep his stupid chest out as their running dog. Remember, Macron, the man who wants to keep us in the Backstop unless we give him our fishing rights.

All that the Remainers can say about Macron's stance is that he is looking after his own and that's natural. Doesn't mean we need to be in bed with him by remaining in the EU.




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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter

Thanks for the info everyone.

If a referendum to join wasn't held because if was deemed to be unconstitutional (why?), why wasn't this seen as a problem with the Brexit referendum?

Because the Remainers are trying to bend constitutional norms.