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Old 30-01-2024, 08:23   #5845
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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DUP agrees deal with UK government to restore power-sharing to Northern Ireland
https://news.sky.com/story/dup-agree...eland-13059737

Good news for Northern Ireland but sovereignty purists will be waking up with a hangover this morning as the detail is unveiled. Those idealists seeking a bold, competent, swashbuckling government willing to take advantage of Britain's Brexit freedoms (whatever that means) will finally have to face up to the fact that we will now be a rule-taker from Brussels and won't be able to shape those rules as we did as an EU member. Labour and the Conservatives will follow this policy.

Have no doubt, this is indeed what it sounds like - a reduction in British sovereignty. We now have less of it than we did as an EU member as we don't have representation in Brussels to influence policies we have to adopt. However, sovereignty tick-boxers can console themselves with the argument that the country could throw this deal out at the ballot box if enough people voted for UKIP.
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