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Originally Posted by Chris
You plainly aren’t taking an evidence-based approach. You’re swallowing what the ultra-remain Independent is feeding you: interim measures that may or may not turn out to have worked very well, which are hard to judge fairly at present as we’re (1) emerging from a pandemic that has absorbed huge amounts of government time and (2) we are only 4 months through the 12 month financial year in which the scheme will operate.
On the basis of this scant evidence and concluding that (1) everything is the way you always thought it would be and (2) it will ever be thus. You’re as clear a case study in confirmation bias as you’ll ever find.
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Not at all.
You're giving the government a green card to not deliver on its promises and for it not to be honest about not doing so because you are seeing the words sovereignty and are being dazzled by them. The government chose to implement Brexit when a pandemic was raging. It's sensibly not using this as an excuse for inaction. Councils need some notice that funds are on the way even if they won't be receiving them for several months.
I had hoped that the government would honour its promises and as a net contributor to the EU budget, it's not as if we don't have the money. Or am I assuming something here?
You will find that I've posted positive news stories about Brexit. Unfortunately, my optimism was misplaced with the story I posted about musicians' touring rights as it turned out to be the government department rehashing something agreed previously.
But on the subject of sovereignty. The fact remains that genuine sovereignty costs and it's not a price that governments feel is worth paying. Look at the medicines regulator as an example of how things are going. The government is proposing substantial cuts there that that will reputedly make it an organisation that simply rubber stamps the European Medicine Agency's decisions. Our seat at the table is gone. For a sovereignty theorist such as yourself, no problem, just elect a government that is prepared to spend the sums required on duplicating such bodies. You and I both know that with our political set-up, such choices are unlikely to appear on the ballot paper.