• CAVOK@lemmy.worldOP
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    7 days ago

    This is even weirder imho, these are nationalists (Scots, Welsh, N.Irish) becoming independent from the UK and then joining the EU. I don’t mind, I just don’t understand. Generally nationalists tend to be more against joining the EU or other supranational entities.

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      7 days ago

      Makes no sense. Why replace being ruled from afar in Westminster to being ruled from Brussels?

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        Perhaps because unlike the current situation with England, there’s actually a net positive effect of affiliation with the EU.

        Besides, the whole “ruled” thing was an emotive term used to goad a poorly informed electorate into barely passing an advisory referendum.

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          7 days ago

          Ruled is not an emotive term. EU creates the regulations in Roman civil law. The UK is a common law country.

          Civil law was literally overruling common.