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Old 03-06-2019, 22:10   #3189
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Re: Brexit

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The US will want business access to the NHS in any post-Brexit trade deal,
And? Just means they can sell American manufactured crutches, wheelchairs, ecg monitors etc.

All the panic mongers can calm down.

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And has been explained many times, that is not how the U.K. Parliamentary Democracy works - we are a representative democracy, not a delegated one.
And has been explained many times before, Parliament delegated that question to the people, and then voted to enact the result.

So on that particular question and action that is exactly how Parliament should have worked.

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You may prefer Direct Democracy, but that’s now how it’s done in the U.K.
It’s how that particular question was done. If parliament didn’t want to delegate authority to the public via the referendum then they should have voted against it.
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